As a center for commerce, education and cultural innovation, Frenchtown is regaining its place among the most vibrant contributors to Tallahassee’s future. The most recent example of this forward thinking is Kitchen Share.
Last Saturday, Kitchen Share opened its doors to the public for a firsthand tour of this remarkable business which promises to be a collaborative concept for improving communities via shared-space cooking and start-up incubator programs.
As a demonstration of Frenchtown’s stake in Tallahassee’s future, Kitchen Share is among the first of many such innovative business ideas designed to bring Frenchtown neighborhoods the kind of economic growth, prosperity, and sense of community they had known for several generations. As a place of business, Kitchen Share provides commercial kitchen space and equipment to multiple individuals or business entities to commercially prepare or handle food that will be offered for wholesale, resale, or distribution.
As a symbol of the community’s resolve to shed past constraints and embrace a future marked by innovation, a former construction warehouse site was chosen for its central location and transformed into the modern facility that features a walk-in freezer and cooler, hotline with stove, grill, confection oven and fryer, a bakery, a packaging and preparation room, a dish room and a gluten-free specialty kitchen.
For its part, The Frenchtown Neighborhood Improvement Association Inc. served the vital role of securing funding for the project having received a Local Food Promotions Program Grant for $500,000 from the US Department of Agriculture
and $250,000 in funding from the Tallahassee Frenchtown Community Redevelopment Agency for infrastructure improvements.
The shared kitchen model has emerged nationwide through the last two decades as communities have looked for more sustainable ways of moving people into entrepreneurial culinary ecosystems. Shared kitchen support services provider, The Food Corridor states that shared kitchens are “licensed commercial spaces that provide a pathway for food entrepreneurs—ranging from chefs, caterers, food truck operators, and bakers, to value-added producers and packaged food and beverage makers—to launch and grow their businesses.
By renting space in a shared kitchen on an hourly, daily or monthly basis, businesses can produce food in compliance with regulatory requirements without needing to invest in their own facility during a stage when capital and cash flow are a challenge. Kitchen incubators provide similar access to production space while also delivering education and ecosystem services that support business success and propel growth.” Kitchen Share is the first of these break-through facilities within 100 miles of Tallahassee with the next closest located in Panama City.
Heritage Hub is also home to the Frenchtown Farmers Market which is open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kitchen Share manager Rose Garrison Rose@FrenchtownHeritage.org said: “ Not only will we continue to advance economic opportunity, create jobs and support growth of the local food system, but we will also be able to develop local and regional food businesses and new market opportunities for many others.”
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/chronicle/2019/05/22/sharing-taste-future-kitchen-share/3741931002/
2019-05-22 16:07:00Z
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