The Food Corridor, a supporting platform for shared-use kitchens, organized and held the first ever summit for our industry. Trish Wesevich was one of the Rapid Fire Speakers at the event discussing Acquiring and Retaining Clients as well as Creating a Market for Your Clients. Other shared kitchens from around the country participated in the conference from as many as 27 states. “Our industry is growing as the food & beverage industry continues to expand with more communities wanting to procure quality and locally-made products. Large food companies are watching what the entrepreneurs are doing as these start-ups gain market share on grocery store shelves”, explains Trish. “It is a very exciting time to be in the industry and we appreciate the support The Food Corridor is giving to us”.
Our first mention in tech publication - The Spoon
The Spoon | Analyzing the future of food, cooking & the kitchen
We were thrilled to be included in an article with The Food Corridor and Pilotworks -- both friends and colleagues of Capital Kitchens. Our industry is growing rapidly and we are honored to be an integral participant in the success of food and beverage companies in Austin, Texas.
"While the association with WeWork is fine for general identification purposes, it fails to capture the essence of what makes the boom in community commercial kitchens a hot commodity. Pilotworks enters a crowded space that spans options from highly regarded Food Corridor—a community and network of commercial kitchens that offers similar services to Pilotworks in a more federated manner—to individual shared-use kitchen incubators such as Capital Kitchens in Austin. The website Culinary Incubator offers a database and list of 725 shared-use kitchens in the United States."
Capital Kitchens helps NBC News Identify Austin Food Trucks Inspiring America
At the end of May, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt contacted Trish Wesevich to obtain her assistance in finding a good story for their Inspiring America segment. She knew that reaching out to the Austin Food Trailer Chamber community would be a great place to hear good stories and was she ever right on about that! "So many food trucks in the ATX have inspiring stories", says Trish. NBC chose to do their segment on Libbie's Fun Time Food Truck, a non-profit food truck operated by Becky Nichols for the benefit of kids who need tasty meals while in treatment at the Dell Children's Blood & Cancer Center. It aired on the national nightly news last night. NBC would like to come back here and do more stories as they recognized what a great food truck community Austin, Texas has.
See the full story on NBC Nightly News' Inspiring America here: http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/inspiring-america/video/this-food-truck-owner-is-delivering-happiness-to-hospitalized-children-977439299602
Austin's Capital Kitchens Uses City Rebate to Boost Clients' Waste Diversion!
Stacy Savage
Founder & President, Zero Waste Strategies, LLC
Over the past couple of months, our team at Zero Waste Strategies has been working with Capital Kitchens to not only expand their current recycling program, but to implement a new composting program!
Using the City of #Austin's $1,800 business rebate, the commercial kitchen is now able to offer its 30+ clients, consisting of caterers, food trucks owners, chocolatiers, and others, the opportunity to lessen their environmental impacts through waste diversion from landfills!
We provided a comprehensive on-boarding process through education training and revised the company's contract language to reflect client agreements with the new policies. The program was well received and the clients of Capital Kitchens are excited to now claim #ZeroWaste operations and establish a green marketing edge over their competitors!
Big thanks to owner, Trish Foreman Wesevich, for her long-term vision for sustainability and to Morgan Whitney for her tireless efforts in helping businesses discover operational efficiencies.
THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE
- Planting the Seeds, by Virginia B. Wood, Fri., Aug. 21, 2015
At Capital Kitchens, caterer and private chef Trish Wesevich not only offers prospective tenants a kitchen in which to work and grow their company, but working in the space comes with business development services, as well. For instance, she cultivates relationships with local retailers to assist in product placement and helps tenants make connections with potential investors, co-packers, food technology, mentoring, and social media groups. At any given time, she'll have more than 25 tenants sharing space in the 3,600-square-foot warehouse kitchen in a South Austin business park.
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AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN
How Central Texas became a hotbed for packaged food businesses.
By Addie Broyles - American-Statesman Staff. Friday, June 19, 2015
The Austin packaged food economy is as hot as the restaurant scene, and its reach extends far beyond the boundaries of Central Texas and into the shopping carts, refrigerators and pantries of grocery shoppers from coast to coast.
Hundreds of companies call Austin home, from established homegrown brands like Stubb’s, Primizie, Beanitos and Vital Farms to booming transplants such as Skinny Pop, one of the biggest ready-to-eat popcorn companies in the country, which recently moved its headquarters from Chicago to Austin for warmer weather and livability for its top executives.
On a national scale, small to midsize consumer packaged goods companies have taken $18 billion from the pockets of the largest food companies in the past five years, and a healthy portion of that money is flowing through Central Texas.
Other parts of the country, especially the Upper Midwest, where mega food companies such as Kraft, General Mills and Kellogg have long been based, have far more institutional knowledge to launch and manufacture products. Austin’s history is shorter. Continue reading here.