Allen Neighborhood Center – Incubator Kitchen Program Tour

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The Incubator Kitchen Program utilizes commercial shared-use kitchens to help scale production and solidify operations for new food businesses. Since 2014, 90 entrepreneurs have moved through this pipeline. The shared-use model lowers both risk and cost of entry, provides access to one-on-one mentorship, trains in food cost analysis and labor controls, provides food safety training and certification, and assists in building standard operating procedures. The kitchens also offer free career and workforce training as well as an educational workshop series.​

The Maker Kitchen, powered by Lake Trust, is available for entry level and/or small businesses interested in creating packaged food products or ready to eat food. Our Incubator kitchen program is curriculum-based, with milestones and objectives for growth and business development. This is your step­-by-step process for becoming licensed to reserve and use the Maker Kitchen.

We want to ensure the success of all of our incubator program participants by making sure that the facilities and our program curriculum will meet your needs. During this initial meeting, you can expect to discuss your concept, our program curriculum and your scope for growth, space and time requirements, and licensing and insurance. We can also direct you to community resources, mentorship opportunities and alternative options. Please review the program curriculum requirements and LEAP TrekHub resources available on our website at https://www.allenneighborhoodcenter.org/kitchens prior to scheduling your tour.