Zoomin Market, an online grocery featuring drive-through pickup, and Dark Horse Distillery, a craft distillery and event space, were the entrepreneurial pitchers at this week’s 1 Million Cups at the Kauffman Foundation.

Zoomin Market founders John Yerkes and Matt Rider began their presentation with a checklist of reasons why people may not enjoy shopping at a conventional grocery store, including bad weather, dragging the kids along and crowded checkout lines. There had to be a better way, they said.

That way, they explained, is to get groceries the Zoomin Market way, by shopping and paying online, being texted or emailed when the order is ready and picking it up at a drive-through kiosk at the company’s brick-and-mortar location.

“What we’re trying to do is give back time in your life…,” Rider said. “We think it’s going to change the way people shop.”

The first Zoomin Market, based on a European model, is scheduled to open next week in Olathe. The grand opening is April 27. At least initially, the company will not accept coupons or sell alcohol.

Dark Horse Distillery co-founder Damian Garcia talked about his family’s grain-to-bottle craft distillery and event space begun in 2010 in Lenexa. Garcia said that the company benefits from his and his three siblings’ combined backgrounds in the food and beverage business, the financial planning sector and the legal profession.

Dark Horse Distillery spirits are available in Kansas, Missouri, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and they recently won several gold medals for bourbon and whiskey from the American Craft Distillery Association.

“What we are all about is trying to put out the best spirits we possibly can…,” Garcia said. “We want to continue to spread the message of what we do and how we support this local market.”