Haddon Kitchen Incubator provides turnkey kitchen facilities to food service businesses who do not manage their own dedicated food preparation space. But that is just the beginning. We are a full-service food industry incubator, dedicated to help you grow your business.
Haddon Kitchen Incubator is more than just a commissary kitchen. In addition to on-demand use of our facilities, we offer many services to help you get your food business off the ground or meet new demand as you grow.
We offer many other benefits to our members. We hold regular member meetings to help you network with other Incubator members. We also plan seasonal public events and invite Incubator members to showcase their products. We will attempt to use our group purchasing power to obtain discounts on popular services. We engage in group purchasing which allows small businesses access to large suppliers who often have minimum order sizes and set delivery dates.
Commissary Kitchen
The kitchen is available for rental on an hourly basis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Members may utilize any available equipment and space during their reservation.
The kitchen is fully-equipped to serve caterers, restauranteurs, bakers, and specialty product producers. Check out our facilities page for a listing of major equipment. Some equipment may require specific reservation or small additional fee. Basic catering equipment is also available for separate rental. Businesses with unique needs may bring in specialty equipment as needed.
Mobile Base Station
We offer dedicated services to mobile vendors. We have both filtered and regular tap water spigots to fill holding tanks as well as an exterior drain for greywater disposal from your mobile unit. We offer catering equipment available for rent on a daily (per-event) basis. We offer used oil recycling and trash disposal. We do not offer storage of mobile units.
Storage
We offer rental of dry, refrigerated, and frozen storage on a weekly or monthly basis for members who wish to leave items between kitchen sessions. We have three sizes of dry storage lockers available and can offer full open shelves for members with larger operations. We offer small locking cages, medium and full open shelves for refrigerated storage in our walk-in. We have two sizes of freezer compartment available. Caterers who need to leave prepared product overnight prior to delivery may rent space on the speedracks in the walk-in on a nightly basis.
Pop-Up Sales
The front of the house includes a sales counter and display board to turn into your temporary storefront for customer pickup in conjunction with a kitchen use reservation.
Members may rent the front of the house for private events, demonstrations and classes.
Future renovations include plans for a proper demonstration kitchen designed for hands-on classes and demonstrations including audiovisual equipment for live or recorded events.
We offer consulting services to new and growing businesses. Need someone to look over a contract? Are you sure you have the right insurance? Are you spending way too much for back office solutions? We are industry veterans who have struggled with the same issues and have developed a proven path to success.
We can also provide business services, including phone and mail service, invoicing system, one-pager websites, and more.
