Is your dream centered around a restaurant or cafe? Could you use some professional advice? Follow the lead of La Cocina, a nonprofit kitchen incubator in San Francisco's Mission District.
14 culinary entrepreneurs are the beneficiaries of this program, which is sponsored by the Women's Foundation of California, with funding from corporate foundations like Levi Strauss & Co. and Wells Fargo, as well as the Mayor's office of community development.
Simply put, La Cocina helps low-income women of color start food-related home businesses.
"Food businesses are the No. 1 kind of business that Latinas and immigrant women want to start, but they're hampered because commercial kitchen space is virtually nonexistent in the Bay Area," said Valeria Perez Ferreiro, executive director of La Cocina.
It also provides operations support, helping the women with business plans, legal advice and marketing, with the goal of developing self-sustaining small companies.
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