Two family-owned food gift companies, one big difference in what you actually get. When you're shopping for a food gift online, the categories blur together fast: baskets, towers, boards, crates, every theme imaginable. Boarderie and GourmetGiftBaskets.com both ship food gifts nationwide, both are family-owned, and both have loyal customers, but they are not the same product.
What's the actual difference between Boarderie and GourmetGiftBaskets.com?
Boarderie ships fresh, chef-arranged cheese and charcuterie boards overnight from our West Palm Beach kitchen. GourmetGiftBaskets.com ships gift baskets across hundreds of themes, from food and wine to corporate and promotional, from its Exeter, New Hampshire, facility. Different categories of gourmet gifts.
GourmetGiftBaskets.com was founded around 2001 by Ryan Abood, who started the business in the basement of his family's New Hampshire flower shop. The company is privately held, family-owned, with roughly 50-60 employees and an estimated $10 million in revenue. The catalog spans food baskets, wine and beer assortments, corporate gifts, promotional products, holiday gifts, and themed care packages. GourmetGiftBaskets is one of the larger independent gift-basket sellers but it is not a maker; it assembles baskets from sourced components.
We started Boarderie in 2021 to answer a different question: what would it take to deliver a fully arranged, catering-quality cheese-and-charcuterie board anywhere in the country overnight, ready to serve? The answer became a new product category. Our boards are chef-made the day they ship, with 18 to 37+ artisan items sourced from 8 or more countries. We have been featured on ABC's Shark Tank (Season 14), selected for Oprah's Favorite Things in 2022 and 2023, and named a Food Network Editor's Pick in 2025.
Both brands are family-owned and independent. The products and gifting jobs are different. Below is how they stack up.
