Food Entrepreneurship
Local First Arizona offers programs made to support new, food-based business owners. Those who are interested in our food entrepreneurship incubation program can begin the journey by participating in a six-week Good Food Boot Camp, designed to help scale a local food business from ideation to marketplace. Entrepreneurs can then apply to be a part of a two-year Community Kitchen program through Local First Arizona, where they have the opportunity to be permitted in one of our commercial kitchen facilities.
If you’re interested in getting your food business off the ground or expanding, click the Restaurant Startup Boot Camp button below to get started. If you’d like to join our Community Kitchen program, please fill out our kitchen interest form:
Incubation Program Offerings
During our food entrepreneurship incubation program, entrepreneurs are not only able to scale their business through the use of the Community Kitchen, but they also have access to our team of business consultants. Entrepreneurs are encouraged to meet on a quarterly basis to set goals and work to solve business-related hardships.
Business Consulting Includes:
Creating and implementing marketing strategies
Financial planning
Scaling & sustaining operational plans
Inventory sourcing
Developing more efficient production processes
Supporting partnerships and vendor relationships
Legitimizing business operations (permitting, licenses, etc.)