Incubator Kitchen
Run by the staff of the food corridor this private facebook group is a space for 1400 shared kitchen owners operators and community partners to ask questions share best practices and opportunities and provide mutual support.
Incubator kitchen. Ten years ago the kitchen incubator was a novel concept. Opportunities for farmers and entrepreneurs to develop value added food businesses and build client bases commercial facilities and materials to prepare meals or products. Culinary incubators drive new start up businesses for whom without a health department licensed commercial kitchen could not legally produce their food. We provide education promote food access and offer support to our kitchen members and to the community around us.
What is an incubator kitchen. Kitchen incubators also known as culinary incubators also provide kitchen rental but provide additional services like business development training and access to ecosystem services such as legal aid packaging label printing and distribution. If you are interested in becoming a member of either kitchen please register with the food corridor. A commissary kitchen is an example of a shared use kitchen that provides kitchen rentals.
Rental of the cooking kitchen and wash pack kitchen provides many services and benefits including. The network for incubator and commissary kitchens is the largest informal network of shared kitchens. Applications for membership are reviewed on a rolling basis with offers extended to good fit food startups as long as space is available. A true kitchen incubator system does more than just connect entrepreneurs with kitchen spaces.
Hot bread kitchen which is located in east harlem charges a fee but aims to bring in 30 percent of its members from a low income demographic and subsidize their use of the incubator s resources. While davison at detroit eastern market corporation handles day to day logistics foodlab designs and delivers education programs to participants including workshops and information on sourcing financial management business plan development and. A shared use kitchen is a licensed commercial space that is certified for food production. The acadiana incubator kitchen is currently accepting applications to our incubator program.
Our licensed incubator kitchens are versatile commercial kitchens that can accommodate a wide variety of interests and needs. We are now flooded with artisan products or specialty local small batch insert your favorite food movement here and have unparalleled access to unique food trucks and food services and i think we are all better off for it. Since then the food landscape has evolved pretty dramatically.