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" (...