Fresh from a global conference on the new economy, Wesley Booth of Wolfville is putting together plans to launch Feddishes, an online service that arranges the delivery of prepared meals.

For the last year or so, Booth has been working as the communications and events co-ordinator at the Acadia Institute for Data Analytics in Wolfville. And he’s been working on a few ideas that would marry two of his great loves: cooking and tech startups.

He got a chance to research his business plans when he was in California last month to attend the Global Innovation Summit.

Here’s the story: Booth and his co-founder, Sean Williams, are experimenting with services that deliver prepared meals to online clients. The idea is that people in a specific city can use an app to order a nutritious meal, and it will be delivered to their home within a certain time period.

The models are existing services in San Francisco. SpoonRocket is a service that delivers an affordable meal to the door within 15 minutes. Munchery allows people to order a restaurant-standard meal early in the day and have it delivered that evening.

Booth and Williams were researching these sites from afar when, one night, Booth, 23, noticed an ad for the summit, a meeting of business and government leaders from 50 countries discussing the new economy. Organizers were looking for young people to attend.

On a lark, Booth applied and was accepted. He was given a free pass to the event, but he had to cover the travel costs. He crowdfunded the money he’d need and was one of three people under 25 at the summit.

“It was a different experience where these were people in positions of power but they didn’t know how to (implement the tech economy).”

Booth said there was a spirit of openness at the event and he had no difficulty meshing with the older participants and making contacts from around the world.

“The whole concept of being globally connected is amazing, but we can do better. I might be better at connecting with companies in Russia than in my own backyard. There’s a need to help each other out.”

After the event, he returned to San Francisco and stayed at a startup hostel, a combination of living accommodation and work space. He investigated Munchery and SpoonRocket and considered ways to start a similar service in Nova Scotia.

He and Williams are in the planning stage of the project and looking for a chef interested in working with them. Though they haven’t decided where to base the company, they’re hoping for a soft launch this summer and starting the company in earnest when students return to university in the autumn.

They believe these delivery services will eventually replace fast-food outlets, and they want to be part of it.

“The whole purpose of Feddishes is to allow everyone to eat better and to get what they want when they want it,” Booth said.

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