About

Nourishment, Investment, Community & Excellence

The Kitchen Coop® supports wholesale food and beverage brands achieve profitable growth by provide SAFE, flexible, structured manufacturing environment and operational analysis at transparent prices. We are founded upon the 4 principles, each of which has both a past history and a future promise that make them cornerstones in our approach to creating the premier cooperative manufacturing facility for the natural food industry.

 

Nourishment

Much in the same way that our hunger for nutrients drives our continuous search for food, our desire for wisdom drives our continuous effort for knowledge. Building any business requires a successful entrepreneur to absorb wisdom from across the spectrum and around the globe. Our approach here at The Kitchen Coop® is supply producers the knowledge they need to be successful.

 

Investment

The production and distribution of food is one of the most complex and important components of our economy, any economy. That complexity requires resources all along the supply chain to be combined in sophisticated ways. That level of sophistication and complexity requires a deep commitment between The Kitchen Coop® and our clients. We make investments of time and money in our clients through The Kitchen Coop’s Client Roosting Process™. The Client Roosting Process™ is our way of ensuring that all our clients operate in accordance with the highest standards of food safety and production efficiency. The Kitchen Coop® operations staff works with each client to establish a HACCP program, document procedures for production and packaging, and establish training and testing programs to ensure reliable, quality production. Thorough documentation allows our clients to make the most of test runs, reducing variability and waste from their operations, and facilitate certification and preparation for third party audits. 

 

Community

To compete with the Big Food companies and produce high quality foods safely requires significant capital. Shared ownership of capital is the only way for small producers to compete in this market. Plus, working in community breeds support in tough times AND celebration in good times that makes the hard times easier to take and the good times better to enjoy.

 

Excellence

Doing things well and doing things the right way will yield good results.  That is the principle of excellence that The Kitchen Coop® embeds into everything it does. The Kitchen Coop® is a process centric environment where continuous improvement is paramount. If we get better each day, and help our clients do better each day, we bring all of us closer to a more affordable, healthier food system for everyone.

Our higher standards for our facility and services make our Approach appropriate for small, established companies that are looking to take the next step toward scalable, efficient operations.  Our premium prices and minimum monthly requirements make The Kitchen Coop® more appropriate for companies with an existing brand, some distribution, and enough sales to justify the premiums.