The Kitchen Restaurant Group is a family of restaurants with locations across America focused on sourcing and preparing real food at every price point. With a mission to pursue an America where everyone has access to real food, Jen Lewin, Hugo Matheson and Kimbal Musk co-founded The Kitchen in 2004. The Kitchen Restaurant Group now serves as a model for real food restaurants nationwide. Its restaurant concepts, Next Door, The Kitchen, and Hedge Row, employ hundreds of people with mission driven jobs and source food from American farmers helping stimulate the local farm economy to the tune of millions of dollars a year.