Who We Are
Sapling started because we kept noticing the same two problems and couldn't stop thinking about them.
The first was simple: busy people, families, and professionals deserved access to genuinely well-made, chef-prepared food they could actually count on. Not fast food, not meal kits, but real food made by someone who actually cares what goes into it. The second was that Kitchener didn't have enough accessible commercial kitchen space, the kind where food entrepreneurs can actually get a business off the ground without jumping through a hundred hoops.
We also know that food is never just fuel. It shows up at every meaningful moment in life, the celebrations, the hard days, the times when someone needs to feel taken care of. We built For Your Moments because we believe food has a real role to play there, and we wanted to make it easy for people to show up for the people they love.
We're not restaurateurs and we didn't want to open a dining room. We wanted to build something that worked in multiple directions: weekly meals for people who are busy and hungry, bundles for life's big and small moments, catering for teams and events, and a space for food businesses that are ready to grow. That's what Sapling is.
Founders
Sumit has spent fifteen years cooking in professional kitchens across the world, earning his craft in environments where standards are high and shortcuts don't exist. He has cooked at every scale, for intimate gatherings and large events, across cuisines and cultures, and what has stayed constant is his belief that food should be made with genuine skill and real intention. That's not a tagline for him, it's just how he works. Every meal that comes out of Sapling's kitchen carries that standard.
Sumit Raghav
Ash has spent fifteen years building programs and environments where people grow, find their footing, and do their best work. She has led youth leadership development at a national level, designed programs from the ground up, and learned what it actually takes to build something that serves people well. She brings all of that to Sapling. The kitchen rental program, the community focus, the care that goes into how every service is structured and delivered, that's Ash's work. She started Sapling because she saw a gap in what her community had access to, and closing that gap felt worth building something for.