Home Chef meal kit service will open Baltimore plant and hire 500 people

Meal kit company Home Chef plans to open a manufacturing and distribution center in South Baltimore and hire 500 people by next year, state officials announced Monday. The Chicago-based meal delivery service has signed a 10-year lease for a 150,000-square-foot facility in the city’s Fairfield Area on East Patapsco Avenue, according to a news release from the Maryland Department of Commerce. Home Chef meals are offered both online and at more than 2,400 grocery stores under the Kroger banner. The company got its start in 2013 and employs more than...