The Kitchen Door just got a major upgrade. With new Listing Boosts, shared kitchens can now shine brighter in search results, earn recognition for performance, and attract more food businesses. From Spotlight Badges and brand-new metrics to photo Highlights, your kitchen now has more ways than ever to stand out and grow. The post Listing Boosts Have Arrived on The Kitchen Door appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
If you’ve ever sold cookies from your home oven at the farmers market, bottled jam for friends, or watched a family sauce recipe gain a cult following—you’re already part of the cottage foods movement. Cottage foods are foods prepared in a home kitchen under special state or local rules that allow small producers to sell […] The post From Cottage Foods to Commercial Success: How to Grow Your Food Business appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
Step 1: Define Your Catering Concept Before you dive in, get clear on your focus: Will you serve corporate events, weddings, or private dinners? At The Food Corridor, we’ve helped thousands of food entrepreneurs launch and scale their businesses. If you’re ready to start your own catering venture, here’s your roadmap—plus tools and resources to help you every step of the way. The post How to Start a Catering Business: A Step-by-Step Guide for Food Entrepreneurs appeared first on The F...| The Food Corridor
Running a shared kitchen isn’t just about keeping ovens hot and ingredients stocked; it’s about managing constant movement in and out of the facility. Between tenants with different schedules, vendors making deliveries, and repair crews arriving at odd hours, securing access can quickly become a challenging aspect of daily operations. Without the right system, staff […] The post How Nimbus Simplified Shared Kitchen Operations with Smart Access Control appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
Inside Clarence Creative Kitchen, where a former GM training space now powers 30+ local food startups The post How This Retro Cafeteria Became a Launchpad for Buffalo’s Food Entrepreneurs appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
Learn how to optimize your Kitchen Door listing, share your intake form, organize leads, and build onboarding flows in The Food Corridor to convert faster and grow your shared kitchen. The post Webinar: Grow Your Shared Kitchen Faster: How to Turn Leads into Paying Clients with The Food Corridor appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
We’ve introduced Leads Notes, a new feature inside Leads Manager for shared use kitchens. What is Leads Manager? A fully integrated dashboard that helped them centralize, track, qualify, and invite food business leads coming in from The Kitchen Door (and beyond). The post Simplify Shared Kitchen Lead Tracking with Notes appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
With Peek Inside Pro, free kitchens can now preview some of our most popular paid features — like Scheduling, Billing, Client Profiles, and Onboarding — in a safe, sample-data mode. It’s a risk-free way to see how Pro tools look and imagine how they could simplify your kitchen’s operations. The post Step Into the Smoother Way to Run Your Shared Kitchen appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
In July 2025, the USDA announced the termination of all Regional Food Business Centers (RFBCs), including the Northwest Rocky Mountain Center (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming), where The Food Corridor served as co-lead for the Connecting and Scaling Food Entrepreneurs Theme Team. This decision marked the end of a transformative chapter — but […] The post Shared Kitchens Are Still Rising: Our Legacy with RFBC and What’s Next appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor
When Don opened his Platypus Wine Tours company over two decades ago, shared kitchen operations weren’t even on his radar. His fleet of buses shuttled visitors through Napa Valley’s vineyards, and picnic lunches were just a nice touch along the way. But as the business grew, so did the logistics. Packing lunches off-site became inefficient […] The post How a Napa Wine Tour Owner Accidentally Built One of the Most Efficient Shared Kitchens in California appeared first on The Food Corridor.| The Food Corridor