INCUBATOR BUSINESSES

A variety of food businesses, caterers, and entrepreneurs calls the Incubator Kitchen home. Learn more about what makes them an important part of the West Michigan food community!

24K Gold Coffee

24K Gold Coffee beans are roasted medium to medium dark and the customer can choose their grind based on their individual needs! Sourced from single origin farms and roasted to perfection, their coffee is full of flavor and body.

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9th Wonder Desserts

Ninth Wonder is the mother brand of Dream Cream, a non-dairy frozen dessert, developing a plant based twist to classic sweet treats.

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A Little Sugar Co.

A Little Sugar Co. is a bakery that specializes in both classic and inventive cookie flavors—order online for local pick-up and through pop-up events across Western Michigan.

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Amapola's

Amapola’s is an authentic Puerto Rican food business, introducing Caribbean flavors to the gastronomic community of Grand Rapids. A percentage of the profits are used to support local special communities.

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Big N Tasty's

Big N Tasty’s conveniently delivers filling breakfast food right to your place of business, Monday and Thursday mornings, 8-11am.

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Brodon's

A hot dog cart serving dogs and sausages with different toppings. Interested in catering opportunities, festivals, and events around Grand Rapids.

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Care Entrees

Care Entrees is a food services provider that prepares and delivers delicious, healthy, and fresh meals made from high quality ingredients sourced from local farms and suppliers.

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Catapult Concepts

Catapult Concepts helps your kitchen earn profitable delivery sales through virtual, delivery-only restaurant concepts—a low-maintenance addition to any commercial kitchen with no startup costs.

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Charlotte's Gourmet Coffee Cakes

Charlotte Touchette’s Gourmet Coffee Cakes gives a portion of profits to charity and the community—sharing her mother’s love with you and your family!

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Diana's Dips

A secret homemade salsa recipe, passed down from grandma, and perfected in the Incubator Kitchen!

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Donut Garden

A 100% vegan bakery, frying up light and airy, yeast-raised donuts. That’s right: egg free, dairy free donuts. You can find Donut Garden around town and pop up events and farmers markets.

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Du jour Fine Catering

Providing West Michigan residents with high quality customer experience and a wide array of menu selections for over 10 years, Du Jour Fine Catering curates catering solutions that will leave you and your table satisfied.

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Ice Cream Jeanie

Owner Jean (Jeanie) began making ice cream when she decided to take charge of the dessert served at her daughter’s wedding. After lots of experimenting, she had developed twelve different flavors and started a business!

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Let's Stay Home Cocktail Kits

Their mission is to craft versatile, delicious, and easy-to-use cocktail mixes so that customers can make a delicious cocktail or mocktail at home! No artificial flavors, dyes, or preservatives—only all natural ingredients.

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Local Minima

Baked macarons, made with love and thoughtful ingredients.

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Luxe Artisan Preserves

A collection of small-batch, hand-crafted preserves infused with herbs and alcohol. They are committed to pushing the boundaries of flavor so that you can add luxury to your life in unexpected ways.

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Mike's Famous Bean Dip

Making dip for over 40 years, Mike’s Famous Michigan Bean Dip began at parties and potlucks but soon started to grow a following! They now have multiple flavors, home made chips, and plan on expanding more.

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Nani Girl Snacks

Sharing a little Brazil with the world, “Cassie Puffs” are lightly seasoned and made from the Casava Root!

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Oh So Cheesy

Oh So Cheesy offers 10 delicious flavors of cheese spread, each small-batch is carefully crafted by hand, starting with quality ingredients including some of the finest cheddar cheese!

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Rapid Brew

Cold brew made with just two ingredients: filtered water and a unique blend of organic coffees from Ethiopia, Mexico, and Brazil.

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Savor the Flavor

Savor The Flavor is a catering service that offers a variety of hand rolled egg rolls! Their goal is to bring something new and innovative to the Grand Rapids community.

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Soldadera Coffee

Soldadera is a family-oriented small business whose goal is to bring a unique-tasting cold brew coffee to the community with a purpose. Their original recipe was inspired by the owner’s grandmother’s legacy.

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Spera Foods

Spera Foods aims to provide the next superfood to America: the Tiger Nut! Spera Foods Tiger Nut products are nut free, gluten free, vegan, low in sugar and nutrient rich.

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Street Chef Shaw

Street Chef Shaw is a mobile food operation that specializes in Swahili-Mexican fusion cuisine serving Birria tacos, quesadillas, and more. What started out as a neighborhood cookout has flourished into a catering business!

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Tastes Matter

Tastes Matter is a catering and private dinner company that focuses on food that excites all of the taste buds and creates unforgettable dining experiences

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Tasteful Vegan Desserts

Tastefull Vegan Frozen Desserts handcrafts all-natural frozen desserts for the whole family. Healthy and delicious, Tastefull is full of flavor and free of guilt.

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Tor's Tonics

Tor’s Tonics came to life to unite refreshment and restoration all in one bottle. They use fresh and intentional blends of teas, herbs, and spices to offer natural benefits to enrich your well-being.

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Urban Pickle

Starting with home-grown cucumbers from a personal city garden, Urban Pickle utilized a passion for pickled foods which led to a whole suite of beautifully brined creations!

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Ultraviolet Catering

Whether you’re too busy to cook, want to throw a dinner party, or the event of the century—UV Catering makes food that looks and tastes amazing. Find out how they can cater the meal or event of your dreams.

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Vegan Cheesecake Co.

Delicious mini vegan cheesecakes in classic and innovative flavors!

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Alt City Beverage Co (graduated)

Alt City Beverage Company offers a premium beverage selection including zero-proof cocktails, unique smoothies, healthy juice combinations, and a variety of coffee and espresso drinks. Now open in the Market Hall!

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Amethyst Bee Cakery (graduated)

Starting as just a fun adventure, Amethyst Bee Cakery began creating artisanal, small-batch baked goods out of a the Incubator Kitchen but quickly graduated to its very own “micro-bakery”.

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Ananda Ice (graduated)

Specializing in fresh rolled ice cream and soft shaved ice with all natural flavors and colors, Ananda Ice is ready to bring their food truck or kiosk for your special event!

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Anu Sushi (graduated)

Started by Burmese refugees in 2018, Anu Sushi produces delicious sushi fresh daily for hospitals, universities, and companies in Chicago, Detroit, and Grand Rapids. For each box sold, they provide a meal to an orphan in Burma.

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Basalt GR (graduated)

Basalt is from-scratch, modern Tex-Mex that blends Tejano tradition with West Michigan sensibilities to create food that is delicious, distinctive, and inclusive.

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Bloom Ferments Kombucha (graduated)

Every batch of Bloom Kombucha is hand-crafted starting with only high-quality organic teas and adding organic botanicals. Bloom takes no shortcuts, and their whole ingredient, natural approach.

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Cellar Door Preserves (graduated)

Cellar Door Preserves are proudly made in Grand Rapids, Michigan using a great variety of produce—embracing what Mother Nature gives us right here in the upper mid-west.

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Cultured Love (graduated)

Cultured Love grew from a passion for restoring gut and immune health through living foods. Realizing a lack of easily accessible, restorative, healing foods in the area, Cultured Love decided to become a solution!

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Dolly's Delights (graduated)

Owner Stephanie Dolly started Dolly’s Delights with only $40 in the bank and a dream. She moved her family to Grand Rapids from Georgia to launch her business selling custom cakes, pies, and other sweet treats.

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The Everyday Chef & Wife (graduate)

The Everyday Chef and Wife have a passion for creating amazing food using the best local ingredients available, and making as much as they can from scratch.

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Gaby's Gourmandise (graduated)

Authentic gourmet French food, satisfying both sweet and savory cravings with skillfully-prepared delicacies. They aim to provide elevated, yet approachable, fine food. Now open in the Market Hall!

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Knot Spot Pretzels (graduated)

Combining a passion for baking with a keen awareness of taste and goodness, the Knot Spot uses quality ingredients to freshly prepare warm and hearty pretzels that are lovingly woven by hand.

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Momma D's BBQ (graduated)

Momma D’s mission is to bring her own flavor to the world of barbecue! Make your next barbecue “fine as wine” using their locally produced suite of sauces made with different varieties of wine.

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Monarch Bakery (graduated)

Monarch Bakery focuses on traditional and vegan pastries. Their goal is to make vegan pastries taste as close to traditional pastries as possible.

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Nutcase Vegan Meats (graduated)

A whole foods and nutrient-dense product, this flavorful “meat” is created while avoiding pro-inflammatory ingredients. Nutcase Vegan Meats are gluten-free, soy-free, and corn-free, organic, and non-GMO.

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Pack Elephant (graduated)

Through their vetted network of ethnically diverse artisans and makers, Pack Elephant offers a broad, diverse continuum of curated gifts inspired by the varied aspects of life that people are most passionate about.

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Prospectors Cold Brew (graduated)

Prospectors Cold Brew coffee and latte products are available at retailers across the Great Lakes and Midwest regions. A truly unique cold coffee experience that is all-natural, locally sourced, and hand-crafted.

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Root Functional Medicine (graduated)

When a team of doctors, dietitians, and chefs came together to solve health problems at the root cause using food as medicine, Root Functional Medicine was born.

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Scratch by Patria (graduated)

Whether it be an intimate gathering, party for family and friends, or just help with meal prep throughout the week, their only goal is to provide you with fresh, local, and sustainable meals.

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Southern Smoke (graduated)

Southern Smoke is a soul food catering and meal delivery service located in the heart of Grand Rapids with over 25 years of experience in cooking authentic recipes.

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Sweet Batches (graduated)

Sweet Batches is a family-owned, wholesale bakery specializing in low ingredient, simple treats. They believe that less is more.

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