Commercial Kitchen Coop Files Final Report with MassDevelopment

The Commercial Kitchen Coop of Cape Cod, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit doing business as the Cape Cod Culinary Incubator, today announced today that it had filed a Final Report of their work on the Conceptual Design for the Culinary Incubator Feasibility Study partially funded by a Massachusetts Development had completed Transformative Development Initiative CoWorko-Working Seed Grant.this past June

Lee Hill, Founder and President of the Commercial Kitchen Coop of Cape Cod, Inc., in making the announcement said: “The principal conclusions of this thorough study are that there is a long-standing need for such a facility; that unserved food industry entrepreneurs exist on the Cape, and that a significant collaborative effort by a newly forming Location Committee supported by the Cape’s public and private leadership will be required to oversee the planning for the facility consisting of a commercial kitchen, demonstration/classroom and retail store.

We extend our thanks to the dedicated team consisting of our Board of Director members each of whom have designed and operated commercial kitchens in their prior lives: Bert Jackson, Jenn Mentzer, and Kim Shkapich; to Rick Fenuccio and Paula Drury of Brown Lindquist Fenuccio & Raber Architects, Inc.; to Alan Goldberg of TrimarkUSA, the nation’s leading Food Service Equipment supplier; and Waterman Brown, co-founder of Hope & Main, a culinary incubator, in Warren, RI for their tireless effort and enthusiasm for this project.

We invite Cape Codders to join in our efforts. In particular, if there are property owners with available buildings, please contact us through our website.”

Roberta Miller, Director, also commented: “The Final Report includes a review of our 2017 Operating Plan in which we enter Phase II of the Project: Location Selection and Approval. Our success will be dependent upon the collaboration of a variety of public and private entities. We are pleased that we have gotten the support of the Town of Barnstable and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Now we are calling on Cape Cod Food Industry participants to join our Location Committee cooperative effort as Food Maker kitchen users, volunteers, advisors or donors. We ask interested parties to go to our website www.ckc3.org and register to participate in our project.”