
Take the risk and start laying the groundwork to owning your own restaurant or catering business. Delivery only restaurants, also known as ‘dark restaurants’, ‘ghost restaurants’, or ‘cloud restaurants’ are increasing leveraging shared use kitchens to lower their overhead and launch pop-up dinner options. Rent our incubator kitchen and start meeting those goals. These businesses include caterers, food trucks, prepared meal services, meal or box delivery, pet food makers, personal chefs, bakers, street vendors, cake decorators and producers of specialty food items such as condiments, beverages, and candies.

The mission of the Burgaw Incubator Kitchen is to encourage and support the development of a thriving food industry in Pender County by providing commercial kitchen space, business training opportunities, regulatory information, and networking opportunities to small, start-up, and expanding food businesses.

We provide education, promote food access, and offer support to our kitchen members and to the community around us. Shared use kitchens across Massachusetts efficiently offer affordable culinary incubator and production space in licensed facilities, as well as business. These are user-submitted, however, and may include community kitchens and rental spaces with limited or no support for entrepreneurs. This helps offset many of the start-up costs for culinary businesses. The Incubator Kitchen Collective is a community-driven support system that combines resources, knowledge, and experience to help local food entrepreneurs succeed. Develop, test and launch your craft food concept in our co-shared, 3,600 square ft. Culinary Incubator, targeted at food entrepreneurs looking for shared production space, lists more than 700 shared-use kitchens in the US. BIK provides Pender County Health Department and NC Department of Agriculture approved kitchen space and equipment to specialty-food makers. The Burgaw Incubator Kitchen (BIK) is a shared-use commercial kitchen facility located in the historic Burgaw Depot.
