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Where can you rent a test kitchen to film a commercial showing people making and taste-testing fresh food? Partake Collective, of course. Angela Jones, a prolific producer of commercials, music […]

There are a number of ghost kitchen operations in the greater Los Angeles area, but few compare with Partake Collective’s ability to get a chef up and running in as

If your passion is food and you are ready to make it your vocation, this message is for you.  Using current numbers, I want to compare the difference between renting

When it becomes clear that you need more facilities to reach your food service goals, the first step is to decide what type of kitchen you need – a prep

Partake Collective was designed to be much more than a set of ghost kitchens, and Luisa Amezcua has demonstrated that concept by launching a night market at the Long Beach

Thanksgiving, Christmas, even New Year’s Eve can be a bonanza for caterers and specialty food outlets – but only if they have the capacity to meet demand.  If a catering

Barbecue is a family tradition for Jontrese Wright, and expanding Just Wright BBQ from a microenterprise home kitchen effort to a full-blown business in Long Beach is his dream.  It’s

When cooking food becomes an overwhelming passion, it makes sense to dip your toe into the commercial world, maybe as a pop-up purveyor at businesses, events and farmers markets.  But

Chef Nekia Allen has many knives in her tool kit – meal prep for those who don’t cook, private dining experiences for home parties, grazing tables for large events, in-person

“These are great!” “I bet you could sell these!” “That’s quite a specialty!”  But you have to be able to cook at scale for a business based on a special