Dec 20, 2021 | Community Food Centers, Good Food Glossary, Kitchen Incubators
The term Commercial Kitchen can have many variations, yet at its most basic its meaning is a room or building, or any part thereof, used for food preparation that meets all the requirements of local building code and is not a residential kitchen. As commercial kitchens proliferate with the development of food system infrastructure across […]
Dec 19, 2021 | Case Study, Food Business Planning
Damian’s Craft Meats (DCM) provides on-farm animal processing services for producers in southeast Michigan. Demand for Damian’s processing services has far outpaced the company’s capacity since opening in 2014. It surged to a new level during the pandemic when other regional processors were forced to shut down to control the spread of the coronavirus, exposing […]
Sep 21, 2021 | Community Food Centers, Food Business Planning, Food Hubs, Kitchen Incubators, Strategic Planning
New Venture Advisors is seeing a growing number of Community Food Center and innovative food facility projects develop across the United States. We are constantly talking with teams and individuals who have big dreams and come to us for help or are looking for grants to fund their vision. While it is exciting to see […]
Dec 15, 2019 | Entrepreneurship, Food Business Planning, Kitchen Incubators
The growth cycle of most small businesses that make their start in a shared kitchen or kitchen incubator is different from a business operating within its own space. Both face the normal challenges of scaling and the capital needed to support their growth, but businesses operating from a shared or incubator kitchen face the question […]
Nov 30, 2018 | Kitchen Incubators
Announcements from the increasingly crowded incubator, accelerator, shared kitchen, food hub, and innovation marketplace seem to come at us at ever greater speed these days. New facilities are opening across the country and globe, new communities are being courted to apply for participation in ventures, and new solutions are being sought to the legacy of […]