We are a team of innovative Californians and we call our group SimpleWave. Over the past two years SimpleWave has come up with a brand that will completely change the way we all eat forever. Our patent pending NEW product called the CaliBowl™ is an innovative product which prevents spills and allows for complete control over the food content.

Sound simple? It is, and we have packaged this technology in a viral, exciting brand that everyone has grown to love in a very short time.

Sound too good to be true? It isn’t. It is what our team calls the Cali effect and it will soon be in everyone’s home nationwide. We have taken the industry by storm!

The CaliBowl™ is the patent pending brainchild of Jeff Bollengier, Richard Stump & Kaveh Soofer; all California natives, who share a passion for innovation, sustainability and the need to create! Jeff conceived the concept 20 years ago while surfing in Baja Mexico. He was inspired to follow his dream and share the innovation with the rest of the world.

We are committed to caring about the environment and the communities we live in.

Together over the past two years our team has been able to design and develop this unique concept which has created a groundswell in the market in just a small amount time.

The Calibowl Story

Jeff Bollengier, a California native conceived the patent pending idea many years ago. Working as a general engineering contractor Jeff always had the dream to one day bring his product to fruition. His infallible belief, blind faith, support from his family, and heart filled devotion made that dream a reality. We have incorporated this story into our company’s vision and product development ideology. Our design and business philosophy are directly derived from that environment in which Jeff’s creation was birthed over 20 years ago.

Here is his story:

I was inspired while watching my family play on the beach in rural Costa Rica. We were having a great family moment when I realized life was meant to be natural, simple, and about enjoying the moment. I reflected back 20 years ago while I was in Baja Mexico surfing and enjoying fresh chips and salsa. While struggling to keep the salsa from falling out of the bowl, I realized that a simple adjustment to the bowl would give me the opportunity to thoroughly enjoy eating without having to fight the fresh contents.

There’s nothing better than eating incredibly delicious foods with the people you care about. There’s no better simple moment in life. 20 years later while I sat on the beach with my wife and kids, I realized it was time to give people that shared the same outlook a means to simply relish the moment while eating incredible whole foods, and doing it with maximum enjoyment.

We believe that the CaliBowl™ will enhance those simple moments in life when all you need is your family, friends and delicious food. Envision yourself entertaining family and friends, while enjoying your homemade salsa, dips, and every other great recipe you may hold dear to your family without restraints and enjoying the full effect of eating the perfect bite.

Last year after a lifetime career in the construction business I left and risked it all to fulfill the CaliBowl™ dream. Once I made this decision it became very clear to me how little I knew about developing a product.

I found a product development company in the bay whom one of the owners Rich Stump and I became friends and soon there after met Kaveh Soofer whom owns a company called Plastikon (a global contract manufacturing company). Together as a team we all collaborated and started building the CaliBowl brand. All three of us had the vision for the product since day one and now had the resources with Rich, Kaveh and myself to make it a reality and knock it out of the park!
Let me take a step back for second and say that for 12 years I had worked as a General Engineering Contractor, basically operating heavy equipment. I enjoyed my job, but as I became more involved in this creative world, it pulled me into a realm that I could have never believed existed. I quickly transitioned from a hard working man into an explorer of my creative and adventurous soul. As I follow my instincts and travel down this road, I am confirming even more so now the belief that you should follow your dreams, listen to your heart, and live an honest life.

These new friendships and the team we have formed have given me an opportunity to achieve a goal that I have envisioned since I was a child sitting in the back of my mom’s old Ford Zephyr dreaming of what could be. Once we built the bowl we realized that not only did we create a bowl that made it easier to eat salsa and dips; but we built a better bowl which will revolutionize cooking and eating forever.

We invite you to join our vision and strategy of bringing people together to enjoy the simple moments surrounded by those we love and care about!

product called the CaliBowl™ is an innovative product which prevents spills and allows for complete control over the food content.

Our Environmental Agenda: Zero Landfill Policy
Simple Wave is committed to enhance the long-term sustainability of our planet by developing a framework for reducing environmental impacts, increasing community health, and protecting our community’s environmental resources for future generations. The Environmental Agenda envisions an active, vibrant company growing in concert with its natural surroundings. Employees, manufacturing operations, logistics and warehousing facilities, and general business locations will seek out opportunities to protect and preserve natural resources while improving our community’s quality of life, health, and overall well-being.

Guiding Principles
1. The Concept of Sustainability Guides Company Policy:
Simple Wave is committed to meeting its existing needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The long-term impacts of policy choices will be considered to ensure a sustainable legacy.

2. Protection, Preservation, and Restoration of the Natural Environment is a High Priority of the Company:
Simple Wave is committed to protecting, preserving and restoring the natural environment. Company decision-making will be guided by a mandate to maximize environmental benefits and reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts. The company will lead by example and encourage other community stakeholders to make a similar commitment to the environment.

3. Environmental Quality, Economic Health and Social Equity are Mutually Dependent:
Sustainability requires that our collective decisions as a company allow our economy and community members to continue to thrive without destroying the natural environment upon which we all depend. A healthy environment is integral to the company’s long-term economic and societal interests. In achieving a healthy environment, we must ensure that inequitable burdens are not placed on any one geographic or socioeconomic sector of the population and that the benefits of a sustainable community are accessible to all members of the community.

4. All Decisions Have Implications to the Long-term Sustainability of Simple Wave:
The company will ensure that each of its policy decisions and programs are interconnected through the common bond of sustainability as expressed in these guiding principles. The policy and decision-making processes of the company will reflect our sustainability objectives. The Company will lead by example and encourage other community stakeholders to use sustainability principles to guide their decisions and actions.

5. Community Awareness, Responsibility, Participation and Education are Key Elements of a Sustainable Community:
All company members, including individual employees, manufacturing facilities, businesses locations, and other company institutions must be aware of their impacts on the global environmental, economic and social health, must take responsibility for reducing or eliminating those impacts, and must take an active part in efforts to address sustainability concerns. The company will therefore be a leader in the creation and sponsorship of education opportunities to support community awareness, responsibility and participation in cooperation with schools, colleges and other organizations in the community.

6. Simple Wave Recognizes Its Linkage with the Regional, National, and Global Community:
Local environmental, economic and social issues cannot be separated from their broader context. This relationship between local issues and regional, national and global issues will be recognized and acted upon in the company's programs and policies. The company's programs and policies should therefore be developed as models that can be emulated by other companies. The company will also act as a strong advocate for the development and implementation of model programs and innovative approaches by regional, state and federal governments that embody the goals of sustainability.

7. Those Sustainability Issues Most Important to the Community Will be Addressed First, and the Most Cost-Effective Programs and Policies Will be Selected:
The financial and human resources which are available to the company are limited. The company and the community will reevaluate its priorities and its programs and policies annually to ensure that the best possible investments in the future are being made. The evaluation of a program's cost-effectiveness will be based on a complete analysis of the associated costs and benefits, including environmental and social costs and benefits.

8. The Company is Committed to Procurement Decisions which Minimize Negative Environmental and Social Impacts:
The procurement of products and services by the company and Simple Wave employees, businesses and institutions results in environmental, social and economic impacts both in this country and in other areas of the world. The company will develop and abide by an environmentally and socially responsible procurement policy that emphasizes long-term values and will become a model for other organizations.

9. The Precautionary Principle Provides a Complementary Framework to Help Guide Company Decision-Makers in the Pursuit of Sustainability:
The Precautionary Principle requires a thorough exploration and careful analysis of a wide range of alternatives, and a full cost accounting beyond short-term and monetary transaction costs. Based on the best available science, the Precautionary Principle requires the selection of alternatives that present the least potential threat to human health and the environment’s natural systems. Where threats of serious or irreversible damage to people or nature exist, lack of full scientific certainty about cause and effect shall not be viewed as sufficient reason for the company to not adopt mitigating measures to prevent the degradation of the environment or protect the health of its community. In recognizing that prevention is more effective that mitigation; the company will seek out preventative approaches. Public participation and an open and transparent decision making process are critical to finding and selecting alternatives.

10. Zero Landfill Policy:
Simple Wave will strive to develop and implement programs and policy in research and development, manufacturing, logistics, fulfillment, distribution, product sustainment, and product end of life that results in zero landfill contribution.

“Recycle-A-Bowl” Program
As an effort to eliminate all landfill contribution in line with Simple Wave’s “Zero Landfill Policy”, at the end of a product’s life, participants will have the option to return the CaliBowl™ product to Simple Wave to be recycled into new product. In return the participant will receive a 20% discount on their entire subsequent order through the CaliBowl™ online store.