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The Hill Food Co., 2360 Hampton Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, is a new, technologically advanced virtual food hall that offers online ordering for delivery or pickup from multiple restaurants.

The Hill Food Co. offers commercial kitchens to restaurants, allowing them to focus on quality food and marketing to increase sales. The company also offers online ordering with delivery or pickup.

In contrast, the food hall offers order processing. It provides a clean, safe, technologically driven facility with superior general maintenance, eliminating the kitchen/restaurant provider from those daily hassles, resulting in a great partnership that benefits the consumer.

The pandemic changed consumers’ buying habits while real estate prices increased, increasing the difficulties for restaurants to survive in a rapid inflationary economy with a reduced interest in consumers dining out, resulting in them staying home and ordering online.

The pandemic created a change in consumers buying habits that has affected the restaurant industry forever.

These concepts are being tested in communities around the entire country.

We/I have personal experience with this facility. A related party has leased a kitchen to expand her existing brand with minimal expense or labor required. She was the last tenant to execute her lease but the first to open and receive an order. The facility illustrates state-of-the-art technology, and the health and safety standards and requirements exceed those established by local laws.

The official launch date for The Hill Food Co. was August 1, 2023. Thai Kitchen was the first restaurant to open, launch, and process the first order.

Update – April 15, 2024:

After being open for eight months, The Hill Food Co. has experienced a high tenant turnover rate, as many fail before they get started, which looks terrible for the facility. But we know that those who have succeeded have been established restaurants with a previous name and record of success. It appears that they maintain an approximately 50% occupancy rate but can’t meet the total capacity threshold.

We see multiple reasons for this, but we are not ready to disclose our opinions or intentions. The reasons for failing are apparent and have been expressed to management.

How Customers can order food:

Online Ordering – DOORDASH – GRUBHUB – Uber Eats – eOrderSTL by St. Louis Restaurant Review
Walk-in Ordering on a Kiosk – from the restaurants listed below

How Customers receive their orders:

Customer Pickup
Delivery – Third Party

The Hill Food Co. on Hampton Avenue in St. Louis has the following restaurant partners for online ordering, offering delivery or pickup:

Black Salt
Bougie Bites – CLICK to read the related article.
De Palm Tree – CLICK to read a related article.
Chai Boba Tea
Jose’peños Mexican Restaurant – CLICK to read a related article.
Kim’s Bop Shop
Poke Munch
STL Indian Kitchen
St. Louis Gyros Express
Tikka Tangy
Thai Kitchen
The Req Room – CLICK to read a related article.
Pho St. Louis

Please Note: The restaurants with links will link to restaurants with a directory listing on St. Louis Restaurant Review accompanied by eOrderSTL.

Regrettably, no dine-in space is provided. The sole purpose is to target online ordering for delivery and pickup.

This concept and the change in the restaurant industry allow restaurants to change their business models to conform to consumers’ buying habits.