The Food Corridor

Food Business Marketplace

To help your business grow, we’ve made it simple to find what you need by partnering with trusted providers in compliance, sales, and finance.

FLIP — Food Liability Insurance Program
Get Insured in Minutes

Sync your policy directly to your TFC account.

Redeem Discount

Get a $10 discount on premium. Code FC10 at checkout.

Food Handler Certificate

Always Food Safe

Nationally accredited food safety training. Get certified and stay compliant online.

Point of Sale

Avocado POS

AI-native POS that handles orders, inventory, and staff so you can cook.

Streamline operations
Meal Prep Tools

Bottle.com

Automated meal prep management. Code thekitchendoor.

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Food Labels

Food Label Maker

FDA-compliant nutrition labels in minutes. No design skills needed.

Create a label
Food Production Software

FoodReady.ai

Automate your food safety plan and FSMA compliance with AI-powered tools.

Explore solutions
Preorder Tools

Hotplate

All-in-one platform to sell direct-to-consumer and manage weekly drops.

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Industry Membership

Specialty Food Association

Year-round education, market insights, trade shows, and a network of 4,200+.

Join the community
Financial Strategy

The Good Food CFO

Financial software built to make your food business profitable.

Know your numbers

Partner with us

Want to partner with us? Know anyone who does?

Discover opportunities

Other Resources

Here at The Kitchen Door we’ve sifted through and selected the best quality resources to help your food business succeed.

Business Development

Small Food Business

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.

Specialty Food Association

Create, connect, support, and share the extraordinary experience of specialty food with the world. Join for access to exclusive membership benefits.

Farmers Market Pros

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.

Food Business School

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.

Michigan State Product Center

Helps you develop and commercialize high-value products and businesses in the food, agricultural and natural resource sectors.

Education

The Culinary Institute of America

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.

Food Business School

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.

Food Marketing Institute

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.

Culinary Course Reviews

Information for anyone interested in undertaking an online cooking course to improve their basic cooking abilities, through gaining full-on professional kitchen experience.

Real Food MBA

List of types of funding for food businesses, also contains direct links to funding entities.

Funding, Accelerators & Incubators

AngelCalc

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.

Food System 6

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: Fourth Edition

Funding sources for food-related businesses.

Real Food MBA

List of types of funding for food businesses, also contains direct links to funding entities.

Production, Marketing & Distribution

Galley Solutions

Data-driven food service software to help understand food costs, optimize purchasing, and simplify production.

LeanPath

LeanPath’s food waste prevention solution cuts food waste by 50% and reduces labor and operating costs, making your business more profitable.

DirtyHands

White glove product brand support for retail merchandising, shelving, ordering, promos and product placement.

Partnerslate

Discover, connect, and build a relationship with your next production partner. Find the best contract manufacturer for your business.

Rodeo CPG

CPG operations and sales management support including R, managed supply chain solutions, and data analytics.

RangeMe

Put CPG products in front of thousands of retail buyers – instantly.

Recipal

Create FDA-compliant nutrition fact labels, recipe costing, and inventory management.

Food Marketing Institute

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.

Food Innovation Center (Oregon State University)

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

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.

Safety & Sanitation

United States National Directory of Local Health Departments

Enables users to search NACCHO’s Local Health Department (LHD) Directory by zip code.

Food Process Authority Registry

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.

ServSafe

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.

Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food

All wholesale manufacturers, re-packers and warehouses must comply with the FDA’s Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 21, section 110.

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