COLLECTIVE KITCHEN
At the heart of Kitchen Collective is our shared kitchen. The shared kitchen is organised as a collective and gives food entrepreneurs the opportunity to participate in a working community while having access to food-approved production facilities.
This ensures you as a food entrepreneur everyday life with colleagues and have the opportunity to share the kitchen's mandatory duties, such as cleaning, maintenance, rubbish disposal, etc., with others.
At the same time, Kitchen Collective also gives you access to a valuable address in Kødbyen, which only a select few food companies can access. That is precisely why we are a community that ensures that future food entrepreneurs can also benefit from this opportunity.
In addition to the shared kitchen, we also have a venue space where you can invite diners to pop-up restaurants, tastings, cooking classes or whatever else is important for the development of your business.
Kitchen Collective is a practical, culinary incubator for food entrepreneurs – we call them kitcheneurs.
In our shared kitchen, food ideas can be developed, produced and tested before being rolled out for the enjoyment and benefit of many.
At Kitchen Collective, we bring together curious and courageous people who are passionate about food, good ideas and creative solutions. Since 2015, our shared kitchens have provided the framework for over 400 start-ups. Together, we have helped to create creative and tasty solutions that contribute to a healthier and more sustainable food system.
If you are interested in joining the kitchen collective, you can read more about our various options below.
BECOME A KITHENEUR
Kitchen Collective is an ambitious and professional workplace in Kødbyen, where we think in new and creative ways. Our kitchen is home to kitcheneurs and other food professionals who have opinions and team spirit, and who work in a disciplined manner, with openness and a great desire to create a safe and positive community with other like-minded people.
As a kitcheneur, you will become part of a vibrant and diverse environment with a large network of both new and well-established food entrepreneurs. The foundation of our community is a supportive and inclusive collegiality with a strong willingness to help and lift each other up.
Would you like to be part of an ambitious and generous community where you, like everyone else, proudly take responsibility and host our inclusive shared kitchen and actively contribute to our diverse community? Then Kitchen Collective might be just the thing for you.
As a kitcheneur at Kitchen Collective, you have the opportunity to work on your own food ideas while participating in a working community centred around our venue and events.
As a member of Kitchen Collective, you get:
Opportunity to develop and run your own food project in a professional working community
A working day with colleagues and a strong professional network
Possibility of registration with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration
A unique address in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District
Your own key so you can come and go as you please
Access to test your food with eating people through pop-ups, cooking classes, tastings in our venue
Participation in joint hosting of our venue, which often provides the setting for meeting catering and dinners delivered by kitchen staff as paid assignments.
Kitchen Collective is for those who want more than just to borrow a kitchen – and who want to be part of a vibrant, professional and generous working community.
There are plenty of workplaces that are ego-driven, hierarchical and competition-focused – that's why we offer an inclusive, democratic, supportive and community-building alternative! Welcome to Kitchen Collective!
OPPORTUNITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER
Kitchen Collective is for you if you have reached the stage in your development where you need to test and scale your business model, and where you need a permanent address for your registration with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration.
You are familiar with the possibilities offered by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration's de minimis limit, which provides a good runway for development and testing before you need a permanent production kitchen – and we would like to see that you have already made use of this opportunity. It is not a requirement that you have had a turnover of DKK 50,000, but you must be engaged in sales in order to become a member.
There are fixed costs associated with being part of Kitchen Collective, so it is also necessary that you have a steady income when you move into the shared kitchen.
Kitchen Collective is a dynamic place where kitcheneurs grow and move on when their business is ready. Some are members for three months, others for three years – it all depends on where you are in your development.
In the collective, we work with new products, food concepts, catering, cultural kitchens, upcoming restaurants and food consulting.
We receive many enquiries at Kitchen Collective, and we offer membership to those who work ambitiously and professionally – and who want to be part of a working community.
There are always between 10 and 12 companies in the collective. To ensure space and good working conditions for everyone, we put together the community so that members have different and varied production needs.
If you are interested in becoming a member, we would like to get to know you and your project better. Therefore, please send us a description of your business. If we believe there is a good match, we will invite you to visit our kitchen.
Does Kitchen Collective sound like something for you?Then fill out the form below – or send us an email at miamaja@kitchencollective.dk with answers to the following questions:
What is your food project?
Who are your customers?
What are your production requirements today?
What are your expected production requirements in 6 months?
Why would you like to be part of our shared kitchen?
What will you contribute to the community?