INSPIRED
FOOD
inspired food
To create a good mood.
Michelin-star trained catering and meal delivery services in Chicago.
Welcome
to the good lunch.
With a combined 30+ years of cooking, Chef Matthew Ryan and Chef Charlie Funk are guaranteed to take the stress out of your monthly meal-planning and catering orders. And as two chefs who worked in award-winning restaurants across the country, you’ll be eating really dang good.
Matt and Charlie are proud to serve you, your family, employees, parties, etc. with personal, professional, chef-driven catering and delivery services.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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Good Mood Food is a chef collective that specializes in delivering custom, thoughtful culinary projects like office catering, meal delivery, weddings and showers.
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Chef Charlie Funk and Chef Matthew Ryan! Two industry vets who have worked at several of Chicago’s acclaimed restaurants.
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Good Mood Food specializes in personalized menu development and quality product procurement. We’re partnering with local suppliers and farmers to provide you some of the freshest, highest-quality ingredients in our beautiful slice of the Midwest.
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Meal Delivery: We offer one fridge stock program that's packed with quality proteins, vegetables and sides for folks to mix and match to make meals throughout the day.
Catering: We field a request from our website or IG, and have a personal consultation to help develop a unique menu for each event.
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Whenever you want it! We're always on time. Catering orders can be made at least 48 hours in advance. Meal delivery orders are taken until Monday and delivered Tuesday afternoon.
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At the end of the week clients are encouraged to put their clean containers in their insulated delivery bags and leave them on the porch for Tuesday delivery and we swap them out.
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For catering: of course! We have a variety of customers who are gluten free, paleo, vegan, etc. and we’re more than willing to work around your diet.
For meal delivery: while we’re conscious of providing a range of different dietary accommodations every week, Good Mood Food provides a set menu, and therefore do not accommodate any specific dietary needs for meal delivery.
SERVICES
10 dishes each week, delivered straight to your door. What might that include? So glad you asked! Breakfast item, two proteins, vegetarian entree, starch, soup, fresh bread, hot vegetable, cold vegetable and dessert.
Meal delivery orders must be placed by Monday and delivered Tuesday afternoon.
Specialized catering for anything you can think to celebrate or commiserate. Any type of diet, anything your heart desires.
Good Mood Food requires at least 48 hours notice for catering orders.
catering
what’s your function?
We offer fully-customizable menus depending on your event, theme, dietary restrictions, etc.
Below is a series of (real) sample menus over the past year.
meal delivery
a typical menu
changes weekly, so you can expect lots of variety. We take great care in sourcing local ingredients from our farm partners, ensuring seasonal, sustainable, fresh food that supports our local food systems and is as fresh as possible for you.
Below is a series of (real) sample menus over the past year.
Have a special request? We’re all ears!

