{"id":364720,"date":"2025-11-08T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:36:11","slug":"tempe-offers-free-2-month-program-for-new-or-small-scale-food-business-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364720\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempe offers free 2-month program for new or small-scale food business entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Tempe is <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/tempe\/create-kitchen-incubator-program\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now offering a free two-month program<\/a> for new or small-scale food business entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>This U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded program is meant to bring more locally-made food to the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Cohorts of the Create Kitchen Incubator Program will get access to food service and business education, as well as 100 hours of hands-on training in the Envision Community Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Tempe spokesperson Mary Kate Nacke says<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempe.gov\/government\/transportation-and-sustainability\/sustainability-resilience\/kitchen-at-envision\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the program <\/a>is meant to get restaurateurs and other food business owners interested in using local products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of working with large vendors who are getting their food from all over the country and shipping it and having these costs,&#8221; Nacke said, &#8220;like what if we had the local restaurants using food from farms that are nearby either in their city or within the Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First priority is for applicants living in north Tempe.<\/p>\n<p>The program kicks off in mid-January and will run additional cohorts through 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Tempe is now offering a free two-month program for new or small-scale food business entrepreneurs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":364721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-364720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115514584916975017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}