Articles for Home Chefs and Foodies

On March 14, 2023, the Board of Supervisors, Santa Clara County pushed the MEHKO ordinance thorough the second and final hearing. The county is now open for applications from MEHKO businesses.

On February 28, 2023, the Board of Supervisors, Santa Clara County pushed the MEHKO ordinance thorough the first hearing.

To be or not to be? Should a MEHKO or CFO signup with an Internet Food Service Intermediary.

Home kitchen, home food entrepreneurs can go solo for managing the business chores along with cooking or they can rely on a partner to take care of the business aspects while the focus on creating awesome food for their customers.

Localchefs is now a recognized, registered Internet Food Service Intermediary by California. That empowers LocalChefs to connect MEHKOs to their prospective costumers.

San Diego Food Justice Project team is planning to initially issue grants to 100 small home food businesses. The State of California has awarded $1 million dollars for San Diego Food Justice Project, slated to support food-focused small business entrepreneurs - Micro-enterprise home kitchen operations (MEKHOs), sidewalk vendors, pop-ups and caterers, and immigrant owned restaurants!

Santa Clara County, California has approved a pilot program to allow MEHKO home kitchen based food businesses. Process for permit to be announced soon.

Since food safety is obviously important to all communities, there are regulations that a food, catering business must follow. You will find pointers to regulations in your community here.

When people think about starting a catering business, they mostly think about ready to eat meals. Well, there are many other possibilities that set you apart. Here is a starting point.

Building a food and catering business with normal, expect menu is of course an obvious place to start. However, take a look at alternative possibilities for product offering here.

Resources about starting a home-based food business. With LocalChefs App, you can start right away. Nonetheless, the resources in this blog will inspire you with ideas.