A shared-use commercial kitchen in Charlottesville provides a fully-equipped facility for weekend culinary entrepreneurs and established caterers, bakers, pizza chefs, and more. Recent state and federal grant awards will help the social enterprise expand. WMRA’s Randi B. Hagi reports.
The famous Kathy’s Produce building on Carlton Avenue is once again home to local entrepreneurs looking to food to make a good living. BEACON Kitchen opened here last April, after starting in a pilot location downtown. Inside the warehouse, which has been converted into a giant commercial kitchen space, an organized maze of prep tables host caterers preparing school lunches and Caribbean takeout, bakers whipping up confections, and farmers processing produce for frozen pizzas.
[sounds of kitchen equipment]…