Someone portions food into containers in a commercial kitchen while a Guide checks a recipe.
Guide wanted

From Home Recipe to Small Food Business

Help home cooks turn one great recipe into a product they can legally sell.

6 weeksOne 3-hour session a weekAlongSide Kitchen, Linwood PA4–6 Members
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The Course

For the home cook whose friends keep telling them to sell it. Members scale one recipe in a commercial kitchen and cost it out. They learn what Pennsylvania requires to sell food, and they finish with a labeled, priced product and a plan to sell it.

What Members walk away able to do

  • Scale a home recipe to batch size without losing it
  • Cost a recipe and set a price that makes money
  • Understand food safety, licensing and labeling basics in Pennsylvania
  • Package and label a product correctly
  • Plan a first sales channel: markets, local shops or online

Draft outline

A starting point. You shape the final version with us.

  1. Week 1 — Food safety in a commercial kitchen
  2. Week 2 — Scaling and testing one recipe
  3. Week 3 — Costing, pricing and margins
  4. Week 4 — Licensing, labeling and insurance basics
  5. Week 5 — Packaging and shelf life
  6. Week 6 — Launch plan and a finished product

Who we're looking for

  • Someone who has run a food business or commercial kitchen
  • ServSafe Manager certification a plus

What AlongSide brings

We build the Course with you

You bring the know-how. We help shape the outline, write the checklists and handouts, and set the pacing.

A place to teach

Where it fits, the Course runs at an AlongSide Space — the Philadelphia garage, or the Linwood kitchen or gym.

Enrollment and payment handled

Members enroll and pay through AlongSide. Reminders and attendance are handled for you.

Members already asking

We promote the Course to people on AlongSide who have asked for this skill.

Already teach it? Bring it here

If you already run a Course on this subject, list it on AlongSide after a short review. It carries the AlongSide name and reaches our Members.

Pay agreed up front

Tuition, schedule and your share are agreed together before the Course launches.

How it works

  1. 1
    Apply

    Tell us about your experience. It takes about five minutes.

  2. 2
    Talk with us

    A short call about the Course, your schedule and how you teach.

  3. 3
    Audition

    Teach a 20-minute sample, either as a short video or live at an AlongSide Space.

  4. 4
    Build and launch

    We finish the Course with you, set the dates, and open enrollment.