Kitchen incubator

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A kitchen incubator is a business incubator dedicated to early-stage catering, retail and wholesale food businesses. Kitchen incubators are mostly found in those countries with significant levels of food safety regulation where capital investment in commercial kitchen equipment can be prohibitive for a new business. By covering the capital cost of shared kitchen facilities which are lent on a timeslot basis to incubatees, the kitchen incubator enables a business to develop to the stage where it can invest in its own kitchen facilities.^[1]

Kitchen incubators share the wider business ideals operated within business incubators and will usually assist their tenants with business planning, access to finance, mentoring, and other business facilities.

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Examples of kitchen incubators include:

• The Original Kitchen Incubator: Chef's Kitchens in Los Angeles, CA
• Kitchen Incubator in Houston, Tx
• ACEnet Food Center, Ohio, USA
• Food Centre Wales, Horeb, Wales.
• Western Mass Food Center: Greenfield, MA, USA

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• Part-Time Commercial Kitchen Rental by the Hour - Chef's Kitchens. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.

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