Growing a food business is a lot easier when you have affordable access to a commercial kitchen, or permit a home or portable facility!

Here are some of the kitchens we are aware of, as well as some other pathways to feeding Long Beach with a small food business.
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Kitchens In Long Beach

• Feel Good Salsa’s Shared Kitchen
• Scottish Rite Event Center
• Partake Collective
• Daisy Diner Long Beach

Kitchens Near Long Beach

• 4th Street Market Incubator Kitchens
• The Hood in Costa Mesa
• The Kitchen Terminal in Redondo Beach
• Culinary Incubator Map of commercial kitchens

Ways to Bring Your Food Concept to Long Beach

• Go Small: Produce at home
  (Support passage of Microenterprise Home Kitchen Act or use the Cottage Food program)
• Go Local: Find a kitchen-share with a restaurant, church or community center. 
• Go Commercial: Rent space at a commercial kitchen facility in or near Long Beach.
• Go to the Streets: The City's new permit system, Sidewalk to Success, offers roadmaps to street vending.
  
  • You can also create a Temporary Food Facility, Pop-up at a local business, or establish a Food Truck
• Go big: raise capital and open your own commercial kitchen.
  • Long Beach’s Economic Development loans offer a range of reasonable financing options.
  • Long Beach Small Business Development Center offers support to aspiring entrepreneurs.
  • Kiva Loans can help jump-start your capital if you’ve got a couple years running. Contact us to inquire!