New App MealPal Gives You $8 Lunches from Melbourne Restaurants

No one likes a boring lunch, or spending hours meal prepping — though we all know how quickly the cost of midday food splurges can add up. Those lunch dramas will soon be a thing of the past, with nifty food app MealPal arriving in Melbourne.

The brainchild of ClassPass co-founder, Mary Biggins, and Katie Ghelli (formerly of ZocDoc), the meal subscription service has proved a hit across the USA and UK since first launching in Miami, in January 2016. It launched in Sydney in May this year, and now, having dished up over two million meals to time-starved office workers, the MealPal concept is heading to Melbourne.

Through the website or app, subscribing members are able to order a daily lunch meal from the huge selection of great local restaurants, schedule a convenient time to skip the queues and pick it up, and enjoy a tasty feed for blissfully minimal effort. Use it Monday to Friday, and the service clocks in at less than $8 per day. More than 100 of Melbourne CBD's lunchtime go-tos are already on board, including Empire Steak, Sumo Salad, PappaRich, Mr. Burger, Belleville, Henrietta's Chicken Shop, Famish'd and more.

Sign up here.

Image: Empire Steak.