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February 2012
Chefs Center is a nonprofit project that provides professional culinary business development services for entrepreneurs who want to start or expand a food-based business. Current entrepreneurs include food truck operators, farmers market vendors, legal street vendors, wholesalers who sell to retail markets, and others who want to start-up catering, restaurants, bakeries, and/or on-line businesses. |
From our kitchens to Whole Foods: Francie's Magic Cookies prepares its first order for wholesaling!
 Chefs Center is proud to share the excitement with Francie's Magic Cookies, the first business to receive their wholesale license for use from our kitchens. They are now licensed by the State of California to be a wholesale food manufacturer and distributor. They are currently supplying 18 flavors of cookies to the Whole Foods store in Venice and soon to be expanding to a shelf near you. To find out why they are Magic, read their story on their website.
But wait...we have more good news; three other businesses based at Chefs Center are applying for a wholesale food license! We hope this serves as an inspiration to you! Perhaps you have a product in mind that you can sell? We can help! Call us! |
Our entrepreneurs successes:
Pastry Chef, Justin Chao's Valentine's Day gift boxes are featured in the LA Times. Check it out!
Ellelle Kitchen's Blackberry-Meyer lemon jam was recently featured in Martha Stewart's Living Magazine. |
Workshop
MARCH 24, 2012 - Pasadena Public Health Department Environmental Division, Food Handling Workshop. The Pasadena Public Health Department and Environmental Division will be conducting a Food Handling Workshop at Chefs Center. This workshop is for managers, owners, and supervisors handling food-based businesses. The certification is good for 5 years. Click here for more information.
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Chefs Center was conceived in 2007 by Joe Colletti, PhD., Executive Director
of the Episcopal Housing Alliance and Economic Development, and developed with
J. Jon Bruno, the Episcopal Diocesan Bishop of Los Angeles. |
