The Knoxville Culinary Cooperative is the launchpad for your concept. A nurturing atmosphere for beginning entrepreneurs mixed with experienced food and beverage professionals. A large barrier to starting a food business in Knoxville is the expense of building out or leasing a commercial kitchen. Furthermore, there are tremendous expenses involved in running a commercial kitchen. The Knoxville Culinary Cooperative exists to overcome that obstacle. We are a fully equipped, commercially licensed, shared use kitchen in Knoxville, Tennessee, allowing you to build your business on an as needed basis to with lowered risk and minimized startup cost.
Shared Spaces
The Knoxville Culinary Cooperative is a 4,500 square foot, full service, shared use commercial kitchen. Che’s area, baker’s area and multiple pre area are shared by our experienced food and beverage vendors. Commercial users have access to an hourly or monthly rental of the facilities and equipment.
Mobile Food Trucks
Our kitchen can serve as a commissary or central preparation facility for your mobile food business. We also love to promote your business with social networking groups and will keep you up to date on the City of Knoxville/Knox County policies.
Incubation
The Knoxville Culinary Cooperative is always building its far-reaching network and affiliation in our culinary community will prove to be beneficial to your emerging business. No longer will have to re-invent the wheel when you choose to become a member of The Coop’s community of entrepreneurs. We have been in the Knoxville food and beverage community for decades and can help every step of the way…one on one and customized to your needs.