Welcome to The Kitchen Food Ventures Incubator!

Although still in its early planning stages and a location yet to be determined, Kitchen Food Ventures Incubator (KFVI) is coming soon!!

Kitchen Food Ventures Incubator (KFVI) will be a unique facility designed to help area farmers, specialty food businesses and caterers grow and succeed. The anticipated 17,000 square foot Kitchen Food Ventures Incubator (KFVI) will be one of only a dozen or so such time-shared food production facilities in the country. Designed specifically to help entrepreneurs start and expand their food-related businesses, (KFVI) will be a one-stop source of services and information for the specialty food industry. In addition to rental offices and a retail space where area food businesses can showcase their products, KFVI will also boast [3] classrooms each equipped with commercial kitchen equipment to be utilized for in class instruction, as an offsite location for partnering culinary schools.

Because the Kitchen will be licensed and approved by the local Department of Health, as well as by the California Department of Agriculture, most foods produced in the Kitchen can be marketed and sold in local, regional, and national markets. In short, (KFVI) will free new and growing businesses from the need to invest in costly facilities and equipment by providing access to a commercially licensed kitchen. As a Tool for Economic Development,  KFVI facility concept will encompass the following:

 §        A shared-use commercial kitchen between 15,000 and 18,000 square feet

§        Three [3] training/classrooms each with a small commercial kitchen which will be used for food demonstrations, filming for television and culinary schools using the kitchen as an offsite campus facility

§        Storage space; dry, refrigerated [walk in refrigerator] and freezer storage [walk in].

§        12-15 commercial office spaces in varying square footages for food related businesses.

§        A retail space featuring locally and regionally produced specialty food products produced by food entrepreneurs, caterers and local farmers that can be purchased by the public

§        A computer technology center with scanner, laser printers, state of the art computers loaded with business, graphical, word processing and internet software

§        A specialty food resource library featuring industry trade publications, catalogs and dozens of files on topic specific areas

§        3 conference rooms accommodating 50, 100 and 150 guests

§        Reception, fax, copying machine and other office related support services

§        A sound room for television broadcasting and applicable peripherals