Food Business Education: Our Top 10 Insights
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 along the way and have found more efficient and cost effective ways of running a food business. Here are our Top 10 Insights on succeeding in the food business: 1. Set Yourself Up For Success Keep processes sim
Hana Kitchens' Success Stories: Ice & Vice
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" (black garlic, olive oil, sweet corn crumble), "3 Little Pigs" (bacon salted-caramel, bacon praline), "Movie Night" (buttered popcorn, toasted raisins, chocolate chips), "Opium Den" (white sesame, toasted poppy s
Hana Kitchens' Success Stories: Farm and Culture
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 & Culture Co., Claudia worked for 2 years at Hana Kitchens perfecting her kombucha recipes and optimizing the fermentation process. Farm & Culture Co. serves a rotating menu of small batch, housemade kombucha o
Food Business Education: Automation in Production
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 Kitchens apart from other commercial rental kitchens is our commitment to large scale equipment and automated equipment. We explain it to new producers like this. If your product is highly dependent upon processes d
Hana Kitchens' Success Stores: Arvi Sweets
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 goods for direct purchase online and also stocked in small shops around Brooklyn and Manhattan. Let's take a look at a few of their best sellers (all are 100% natural and made without preservatives or color/flavor additi
Hana Kitchens' Success Stories: MOMO Dressing
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 and marinades made with fresh local ingredients and absolutely no processing or preservatives. Their varieties include Ginger, Sesame, Non-Oil Shiso, Basil, Carmelized Onion, and Yuzu Jalapeno. All of us at Han
Hana Kitchens' Success Stories: The Pie Bar
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 following, Laurie ran a Kickstarter campaign and raised enough funds to open a brick and mortar location in Long Beach. With the help of expert pastry chef Stephanie Devoll, The Pie Bar Long Beach has becoming a
The Grooviest New Ice Cream Company in California
We're happy to announce the launch of our newest ice cream producer at Hana Kitchens Orange County: CONED. They specialize in custard style ice cream made with local craft beers. It's unlike anything we've ever seen. In a collaboration with local favorite San Clemente brewery Left Coast Brewing Company, CONED debuted this past weekend at the Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco, and Music Festival on the beach at Dana Point. According to the OC Register: “The best tacos (and treats)
Hana Kitchens Producers at Smorgasburg New York! Part Two
This weekend brought yet another stellar group of food producers and crowds to support them at both Smorgasburg locations, Williamsburg and Prospect Park. I'm going to proudly profile a few more of the outstanding, trend-setting producers at Smorgasburg that are based in Hana Kitchens New York. SUNDAY GRAVY http://www.sundaygravynyc.com "Sunday Gravy, an Italian-American tradition. Some call it sauce, some call it gravy." This is the motto of long time Smorgasburg staple and
Hana Kitchens Producers at Smorgasburg New York! Part One
I'm proud to report back that Smorgasburg NY (Williamsburg and Prospect Park, Brooklyn) had a smashing opening weekend with Hana Kitchens' producers front and center. For those of you not from New York or LA, Smorgasburg is a carefully curated selection of the cities' finest up and coming food trends. It's a place to discover new and interesting food concepts vetted by culinary experts. Let's take a look at some of the outstanding food served at opening weekend by the Hana
