Incubators and licensed commercial kitchens
What is a commercial kitchen? These are establishments that are especially prepared and equipped for commercial food preparation. If you are in the US, you can find them all over the country and rent them by the hour – quite convenient if you are only dipping a toe in the water or want to take a first baby step, and don’t want to risk too much money and time. There is likely one a few blocks from your home, but since they are typically not located on highly transited areas or malls (also, sometimes they are simply restaurants that rent out their space during off peak hours!) you may not have seen them. In most cases, they can also offer guidance and supervision regarding licenses and any other important city, state or federal regulatory requirements in the US. In addition, you get access to equipment, tools and ingredients that you may not have at home, and avoid disrupting your entire household! If you are using their facilities they’ll have a vested interest in your success and continuity, and therefore can become a great asset as you get started.
Check out this excellent piece on the New York Times: Can’t Stand the Heat? Then Rent the Kitchen
Go to Wikipedia's definition of Incubator to learn more.
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Culinary Incubator is a website is dedicated to small food businesses who are trying to find a commercial kitchen to cook their product. Culinary Incubators drive new start-up businesses, for whom, without a health department licensed commercial kitchen, could not legally produce their food. In addition to producing food, commercial kitchens can be used to shoot TV shows, teach cooking classes, host food tastings, and other events.
EasyMealPrep offers an alphabetical list of over 174 Kitchens, Easy Meal Prep and Meal Assembly Kitchens, the city and state for the headquarters, and the number of stores open under each brand. They also feature an awesome map that shows the geographical distribution of meal prep businesses around the world.
For those interested in starting a food business, Commercial Kitchen Rental is where you can find suitable commercial kitchens for rent. The owners/leasing managers of these kitchen spaces have graciously given me permission to post their information on here. Thanks for looking.
ChefsKitchens offers kitchens that are Health Department Licensed and designed for small retail food related businesses needing part-time commercial space, where you can start or expand your food related business without the huge expense involved in building and equipping your own commercial kitchen. You can also use them to teach cooking classes, test recipes for your new restaurant, make your product to sell at Farmer’s Markets, do set-schedule catering, and more!
Kitchen Chicago taken the considerable financial risk of opening and operating a commercial kitchen and reduced it to a fixed cost on which to base your business plans. With an hourly ratesmean you only pay for what you use, removing the burden of long leases from young businesses.
The Kitchen Space is Austin's premier commercial kitchen rental facility. Their facility is 1,600 sq ft and divided into 2 individual commercial kitchens, each of which can be rented by the hour. Also offers on-site storage, free wireless and a business center. Conveniently located 1 mile east of I-35 near Downtown.
At Commercialkitchenforrent.com you can use their search feature to locate commercial kitchens for rent within a radius of your zip code or click on your State from the list below to get started. Listings also include local small food business incubators for food entrepreneurs (often run by universities) and mobile kitchen rentals/food booths.
BizKitchens.com is an advertising forum dedicated to commercial kitchens and mobile kitchens, plus related resources. Users may post and reply to postings at no cost. BizKitchens is offered as a free service.
LaCocinaSF.com is a ground-breaking business incubator designed to reduce the obstacles that often prevent entrepreneurs from creating successful and sustainable small businesses. By providing shared resources and an array of industry-specific services, business incubators ensure small businesses can succeed. La Cocina follows this model by providing commercial kitchen space and technical assistance to low-income entrepreneurs who are launching, growing and formalizing food businesses.
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