Equip your food business with great providers and save some dough with the discounts and special offers below!
Eligibility and discounts may vary per provider.
ACE provides food safety training courses online for you to obtain your food handler card. ACE’s course is approved by numerous health departments and regulators nationwide.
FLIP provides food vendors, caterers, food trailers, and more with the liability coverage you need to safeguard your business at a low price. Premium savings are passed onto you through FLIP’s group purchasing power.
Leapin’ Lizard Labels prints custom labels, stickers, window clings, social distancing floor decals, and banners for your food business. No set-up fees, minimums, plate or dye fees, or extra cost for custom shapes and colors.
Profit Decoder gives you an easy way to understand your numbers, make changes and see how to build a successful business - no math or accounting required.
Here at The Kitchen Door we’ve sifted through and selected the best quality resources to help your food business succeed.
Check them out below.
A community for food artisans and entrepreneurs with a mission of providing up-to-date industry news as well as the regulatory, business, and strategic information needed to successfully compete in today’s marketplace.
A community for food beverage makers that gathers intelligence and insights, and provides members with the services they need to navigate the future of food.
Create, connect, support, and share the extraordinary experience of specialty food with the world. Join for access to exclusive membership benefits.
Provides online classes, an annual conference, and a weekly Tent Talk Farmers Market podcast, to help food makers learn everything they need to know to become good kitchen tenants and successful farmers market business operators.
Enables and empowers entrepreneurial leaders to design, deliver and lead transformative innovations that address the world’s most pressing food challenges—and its greatest business opportunities.
Helps you develop and commercialize high-value products and businesses in the food, agricultural and natural resource sectors.
Their five undergraduate schools award Bachelor’s degrees in food business management, culinary science, and applied food studies; associate degrees in either culinary arts or baking and pastry arts; and an accelerated culinary arts certificate.
Enables and empowers entrepreneurial leaders to design, deliver and lead transformative innovations that address the world’s most pressing food challenges—and its greatest business opportunities.
For food retailers, wholesalers and suppliers of all types and sizes, FMI leads the way in providing comprehensive programs, resources, guidance, advocacy and services for the food and grocery retail industry.
Information for anyone interested in undertaking an online cooking course to improve their basic cooking abilities, through gaining full-on professional kitchen experience.
List of types of funding for food businesses, also contains direct links to funding entities.
AngelCalc models the conversion of safes and/or convertible notes during an equity financing. It uses techniques similar to those used by Microsoft Excel to make its calculations.
Started to help small companies with big hearts and ideas follow the path to challenge the food industry, improve broken systems, and make a difference.
Accelerator that builds a networking and mentoring platform to enable the best entrepreneurs to revolutionize the way we produce and distribute food globally. Accepts both for- and non-profit business models.
Funding sources for food-related businesses.
List of types of funding for food businesses, also contains direct links to funding entities.
Data-driven food service software to help understand food costs, optimize purchasing, and simplify production.
LeanPath's food waste prevention solution cuts food waste by 50% and reduces labor and operating costs, making your business more profitable.
White glove product brand support for retail merchandising, shelving, ordering, promos and product placement.
Discover, connect, and build a relationship with your next production partner. Find the best contract manufacturer for your business.
CPG operations and sales management support including R, managed supply chain solutions, and data analytics.
Put CPG products in front of thousands of retail buyers – instantly.
Create FDA-compliant nutrition fact labels, recipe costing, and inventory management.
For food retailers, wholesalers and suppliers of all types and sizes, FMI leads the way in providing comprehensive programs, resources, guidance, advocacy and services for the food and grocery retail industry.
The Market Research for Market Readiness (MKTRD) Protocol is based on consumer testing and designed to help entrepreneurial food makers and value-added farmers evaluate the products they are developing for market. This toolkit includes a manual, an Excel workbook, and several training videos.
Integrity Labeling prepares Nutrition Facts, Ingredient Statements, Nutrient Content Claims and Allergen Statements that are FDA Compliant and design-ready to insert into your label design, in just 3-5 business days.
Enables users to search NACCHO’s Local Health Department (LHD) Directory by zip code.
A process authority evaluates the thermal process for food with expert knowledge of thermal process, hermetically sealed containers, and food microbiology. Registry available by state.
A food and beverage safety training and certificate program administered by the National Restaurant Association. The program is accredited by ANSI and the Conference for Food Protection. Sanitation certification is required as a basic credential for anyone producing food for sale.
All wholesale manufacturers, re-packers and warehouses must comply with the FDA’s Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 21, section 110.
Open source food safety plans, free and unrestricted public viewing, commenting, downloading, sharing, revision, and use.
