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Incubator Kitchens
About Our Kitchen
The Incubator Kitchen Program utilizes commercial shared-use kitchens to help scale production and solidify operations for new food businesses. Since 2014, 90 entrepreneurs have moved through this pipeline. The shared-use model lowers both risk and cost of entry, provides access to one-on-one mentorship, trains in food cost analysis and labor controls, provides food safety training and certification, and assists in building standard operating procedures. The kitchens also offer free career and workforce training as well as an educational workshop series.
The Maker Kitchen
Powered by Lake Trust
The Maker Kitchen, powered by Lake Trust, is available for entry level and/or small businesses interested in creating packaged food products or ready to eat food through our Incubator Kitchens Program.
The program is designed to help scale production and solidify operations for new food businesses. It offers a flexible overhead by utilizing commercial shared-use kitchens to lower the cost of entry and risk for entrepreneurs.
Participants follow a program curriculum and have access to one-on-one mentorship, connections to local resources, event space, training and certifications, as well as opportunities to sell their products.
The Rathbun Accelerator Kitchen
In 2021, the Rathbun Accelerator Kitchen was added to our Incubator Kitchens Program to create the next step in the pipeline for local food businesses by offering more exclusive access to production space, with a full time retail store front on the block.
As participants graduate to this intermediate space they begin taking on some more operational responsibility than the Maker Kitchen.
The Incubator Kitchen Program is an entrepreneurial support program for food businesses. We utilize licensed commercial shared-use kitchens and a growth-oriented program curriculum to help scale production and solidify operations for new food businesses.
Since 2014, 100 entrepreneurs, or Makers, have moved through this pipeline.
Whether you’re just starting out or ready to scale, our program provides affordable space, mentorship and connections to local resources that can help you achieve your business goals.
Our program curriculum includes milestones for business development, participation in entrepreneurial support workshops, opportunities for exposure and more!
Allen Neighborhood Center’s Kitchens Program brings neighbors together to cook, learn, and celebrate Lansing’s diverse foodways through hands-on workshops, PopUps, training opportunities, and showcase events that uplift our Makers, local industry professionals and neighbors alike.
Connect with us!
For more information about the Incubator and Accelerator Kitchen, please contact
Abie Kopacz
Kitchens & Events Manager
(989) 690-1092