A real kitchen, with a real story.
It all started with Christine.
It started with a wake-up call.
In 2015, a doctor's visit pushed our founder, Christine, to take her health seriously, so she could be there for her kids. She started cooking her own meals and sharing the journey out loud. People started asking if she'd cook for them too.
What began on a small stove and a backyard BBQ in her apartment outgrew the space almost immediately. It moved into a shared commercial kitchen, then into a compliant facility she built from the ground up. No investor handed her a playbook, just years of early mornings and a stubborn refusal to cut corners as the orders multiplied. Today that same kitchen feeds thousands of Southern California households every single week.
The opposite of a faceless food vendor.
A workplace food program lives or dies on whether someone reliably shows up, every week, with food people actually want to eat. That's a very different promise from a local kitchen than from an app.
- A name on the door. A real owner and kitchen, not a support ticket.
- Nothing outsourced. We cook, pack, label, and deliver under one roof.
- Local, not national. Your Inland Empire neighbors, not a frozen-food shipper.
- Built to last. A decade in, thousands of meals a week, scaled the careful way.
From a BBQ to your break room.
- 2015
The first meals
Christine starts cooking healthy meals for herself and sharing the journey. Demand follows almost immediately.
- 2016
Apartment to commercial kitchen
What starts on a home stove and a backyard BBQ moves into a shared commercial kitchen to keep up with orders.
- 2020–22
A facility of our own
MHP builds a compliant kitchen from the ground up and moves into its own Rancho Cucamonga home.
- 2023
Recognized
Christine is named Top Female Entrepreneur of the Year at the Spirit Awards.
- 2025
Sealed for freshness
New meal-sealing technology extends freshness and helps the food travel even better.
- Today
MHP Food Service
The same kitchen, now built for the workplace, feeding Inland Empire teams three different ways.
Still led by Christine.
The standard started with Christine. The mission keeps growing.
What Christine built more than a decade ago has grown into a local food service company trusted across Southern California. As MHP reaches more people, more workplaces, and more communities, her standard remains at the center of it all: real food, consistent quality, and service people can rely on.
- Founded by Christine Lopez
- Spirit Awards Top Female Entrepreneur of the Year
Because this was always about family.
The name came from Christine's kids, a reminder that this all started as a way to be healthier for the people she loves. That home-cooked feeling is still the bar every meal has to clear, whether it is headed to a family's fridge or a company break room. Good food, made by people who care, for people you care about. It is a little warmer than what most food vendors are selling, and that is on purpose.
A second company, built for the workplace.
We built MHP Food Service, MHP Food Service. Same kitchen, same standards, now sized for teams. We bring three formats to Inland Empire workplaces so food just shows up, no matter how your team works.
- Daily Drop-Off Lunch Buffet
- Smart Fridge
- Weekly Team Meal Delivery
Real teams, Real partners.
Real words from our partners we prepare for every week.
“Thank you for your assistance with this service! I continue to receive positive feedback every day about your services.”
“We're on our second agreement with MHP. The team adapts to our headcount changes, works with us on menu adjustments, and shows up consistently every week. One of the easier vendor relationships we've had.”
“The fridge seems like a hit here! Everyone loves it and it's such a great option for staff to have a healthy meal on site.”
