At this point, I think most of us are familiar with the demise of Pilotworks, the Campbell's Soup funded commercial incubator kitchen that burned through $28mil in 1.5 years and shockingly shut down its' kitchens in the middle of food producers cooking.  This article s...

Anyone operating in the food space knows that navigating food permits, licenses, laws, and regulations can be very confusing.  Some products are governed by local (city or county law), some by state law, and some by federal law.  Here in Part One of our educational ser...

One of the most fun and innovate food concepts to be born in Hana Kitchens in Brooklyn, New York is Wowfulls. Started by partners Peter, David (pictured left), and Yiming, Wowfulls serves up 1950's style Hong Kong egg waffles (Gai Dàn Jai) that are crispy on the outsid...

Hana Kitchens’ management has a combined total of over 75 years of food business experience across all catergories: restaurants, catering, packaged food, food trucks, food delivery, and large and small volume manufacturing.  We’ve all learned a lot from mistakes made a...

Our Hana Kitchens success story today focuses on Ice & Vice, an ice cream company that got their start at the Hana Brooklyn kitchen.  Starting with small batches in innovative, edgy flavors such as "Nuts of Wrath" (Marcona almonds, grape Kool-aid jam), "Olive Garden" (...

Today's Hana Kitchens' success story comes out of our Orange County, California kitchen.  Pictured above is Claudia Stubin, owner and founder of Farm & Culture Co. in Costa Mesa.  Farm & Culture Co. is California's first Kombucha Bar and Restaurant. Before opening Farm...

A quick note about our Food Business Posts:  We will try our best to impart our collective 60+ years in the food business to help new and growing businesses in many aspects including production, sales, distribution, etc.

One of the biggest aspects that sets Hana Kitchen...

Almost since Hana Kitchens NYC opened, we have had a remarkable family business at work in the kitchen.  They are the Arvizu brothers, who run Arvi Sweets and Arvi Catering.  Inspired by their Mexican roots, the brothers produce handcrafted, small batch baked good...

Today we'd like to tell you about one of the many success stories that began at Hana Kitchens - MOMO Dressing.  MOMO Dressing, owned and operated by Yukimi and Masaki Momose, started at Hana Kitchens NYC almost 4 years ago.  They produce outstanding Japanese dressings...

One of our biggest success stories out of Hana Kitchens Orange County is The Pie Bar.  Started by Laurie Gray as a pie delivery service (in the Pie Mobile!), Laurie spent 2 years at Hana Kitchens building her retail and wholesale customer base.  After building a loyal...