2024 Good Food Fund Incubator

Presents:   2024 Early Stage Food Incubator

Application HERE
Early Stage Food Incubator Application

Greater Chatham Initiative’s is please to offer our foodservice establishing entrepreneurs the Early Stage Food Incubator program. This Innovation FoodLab 12-months program will provide in-depth interpersonal insightful, educational program sessions designed for high growth/high impact chefs, restauranteurs, culinary artists, food truck vendors, bakeries, and caterers who are looking to take their businesses to the next level. The purpose of the Early Food Incubator is much needed, for it provides public facing commercial kitchen and learning lab on Chicago’s south side. 

 
The Innovation FoodLab program will serve participants will the following:
  • Receive one-on-one high-touch individualized coaching
  • Group culinary innovation demonstration
  • An opportunity to develop/evolve your specialty plates or Consumer Packaged Goods utilizing professional kitchen equipment in a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen
  • Utilize the commercial kitchen as a foodservice participant can work on your own or collaborate with a teaching chef to uproot your kitchen management technique
  • Work with restauranteurs to make your food servings more nutritionally dense with fewer caloric intake but with the same taste efficiency,  cultural legacy, while utilizing healthier preparation methods. 
At the end of the Innovation FoodLab 12-months program, GCI and the program will have experimented with diverse type of plates and African-diaspora cuisine to share its techniques and equipment Chicagoland chefs during four (4) stadium style teaching sessions. 
 
Additional, the Innovation FoodLab program will work with restaurant specialists with the purpose to establish the following:
  • Plates or consumer packaged goods priced analysis based on ingredient costs and the market
  • Plates or consumer packaged goods improved descriptions 
  • Consumer packaged good entrepreneurs nutritional and marketing consulting and support services to assist with expanding your product placement with its competitive market
  • Optimize participant’s existence kitchen layout
  • Best practice in USDA healthy eating standards and guidelines
  • Stadium four-plate makeover demonstration sessions
Application HERE

For more information, please contact the FoodLab Chicago Team

Tonya Patterson, Tonya@greaterchathaminitiative.org
Enrique Torres, Enrique@greaterchathamitiative.org
John Handler, Jhandler@greaterchathaminitiative.org
Rhea Steele, rhea@greaterchathaminitiative.org

Office Phone 773-644-1451

FoodLab Chicago website