{"id":12887,"date":"2025-08-20T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/?p=12887"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:22:37","slug":"the-thriving-napier-business-thats-served-3-3-million-lunches-to-kiwi-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/the-ownership-journey\/the-thriving-napier-business-thats-served-3-3-million-lunches-to-kiwi-kids","title":{"rendered":"The thriving Napier business that\u2019s served 3.3 million lunches to Kiwi kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"276\"><em><strong>Pictured above: Arthur Miller school girls with Lunchonline sushi. Photo: Kirsten Simcox.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h4 data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"276\"><strong>What started as a Napier bakery\u2019s idea has grown into Lunchonline, delivering millions of school lunches nationwide while supporting local food providers.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fifteen years ago, when ordering anything online was still a novelty, a small team in Hawke\u2019s Bay built a service that would change the way New Zealand parents fed their tamariki.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Lunchonline has clocked up more than 3.3 million lunches delivered to children across the country, while providing vital extra income for hundreds of small, local food providers \u2013 and is proudly marking its 15<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launched in 2010 by Jason Heaven, Sharon Chapman, Julie Gillies and the late David Chapman, Lunchonline provided a solution for busy parents &#8211; and an income stream for regional food providers like bakeries and sandwich shops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was all about giving parents the ability to order and pay for a variety of food items online,\u201d says Jason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHave them delivered to school, and at the same time taking the pressure off schools when it came to handling cash or managing a canteen roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12891\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12891\" src=\"https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-Jason-Heaven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-Jason-Heaven.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-Jason-Heaven-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-Jason-Heaven-721x1080.jpg 721w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-Jason-Heaven-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-Jason-Heaven-700x1049.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Heaven. Photo: Kirsten Simcox.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jason says a meeting of the minds and some old-fashioned Kiwi ingenuity was the jumping off point for Lunchonline. The former owner of Heaven\u2019s Bakery in Napier, Jason had contracted David \u2013 who was a consultant \u2013 to assist with business improvements. In conversation with David and his sister Sharon, who owns ABC Software with Julie, the group created the idea for a business they would each play a role in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019d fielded a lot of phone calls and emails from schools wanting the bakery to provide school lunches, but I didn\u2019t want the hassle of making a lot of food that might not sell, or handling cash and change. I mentioned it to Sharon and David from ABC, and it seemed like there might be a business there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within a couple of months, ABC had designed a platform where wh\u0101nau could log on, pick from a menu of appetising lunch items, pay, and then Jason and his bakery team would get to work fulfilling the order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHonestly, it was brilliant,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI knew from the outset I would need 10 ham rolls, eight wraps, four chocolate brownies, and so on \u2013 so there was no waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And no waste meant lower pricing for parents. \u201cI could offer my items to schools at between six and 12 percent lower prices than you\u2019d get in the cabinet, knowing it was all going on the courier van straight to the school. Nothing would get thrown away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From those early days selling pies and sandwiches, Lunchonline\u2019s first-to-market platform expanded to more providers, more schools, and sought wider reach. It now provides school lunches to wh\u0101nau from Whangarei to Invercargill, offering a wide variety of cuisines supplied by bakeries, burger bars and sandwich franchises to suit most dietary and cultural needs, including Halal, vegetarian and vegan options. But it\u2019s sushi that is the most-ordered lunch item.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat\u2019s an indicator of how tastes have changed \u2013 back in 2010, it was all about the sausage rolls and sammies!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12890\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-cookie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-cookie.jpg 900w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-cookie-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-cookie-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-cookie-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nzbusiness.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LOL-cookie-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lunchonline cookie. Photo: Kirsten Simcox.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With hospitality costs rising and families feeling the pinch of the cost-of-living crisis, Jason says the made-to-order model continues to deliver great value to lunch providers, as well as the almost 100,000 parents who have used the portal, relieving pressure on Mum and Dad and ensuring children\u2019s bellies are full and their brains engaged. And it\u2019s plugged a gap in crisis, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter the Canterbury earthquakes, we were able to continue delivering lunches to schools when supermarkets were shut for demolition or repairs,\u201d says Jason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFamilies couldn\u2019t go and do their normal shopping, but we were able to step in and keep the lunches flowing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A bonus for schools that choose Lunchonline is that it serves as a small income for them as well. \u201cA portion of each sale is redirected back to the school, so they earn something too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Napier-headquartered Lunchonline team is adapting to new needs as they arise. It\u2019s developed tools that can now process fundraising payments for school sausage sizzles, streamline the purchase of uniforms or sports apparel, enable tickets to the school production to be bought, or just about anything else the school and its wh\u0101nau might require \u2013 all through the same secure online system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a change in mindset for schools and for families, but a really successful one,\u201d says Jason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStill, our bread and butter remains the lunches. I\u2019m proud that we\u2019ve been able to make ordering a nutritious school lunch simpler for people, and helped hundreds of bakeries and food outlets stay afloat through 15 years of financial challenges and cost-of-living rises. 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