• Get Help Launching a Kitchen Business with La`i`opua 2020’s Kitchen Business Basics Program

    February 22, 2022
    Do you need help launching a kitchen business? Want to get your recipes into the marketplace? Ho`okahua Kitchen Business Basics, a program of La`i`ōpua 2020, has all you need to get started.

    A three-session course will be offered twice this Spring to two cohorts of students. Each cohort will earn a Commercial Food Handler certificate, explore how to start a business in Hawai`i, acquire digital marketing and branding skills and learn the basics of working in a commercial kitchen, with the bonus of creating value-added products. Cost of the program is free; a $50 refundable deposit is required. Students will be reimbursed upon full completion of the course.
     
    Cohorts will be held March 30 to April 2 and April 6 to April 9 at La`i`ōpua 2020’s complex in Kealakehe. Two of the three sessions for each cohort will be held in the evening and the final day session will be on a Saturday in La`i`ōpua’s commercial kitchen.
     
    For more information and to apply to join a cohort, visit     laiopua.org/hookahua.
     
    ABOUT LA`I`ŌPUA 2020
    La`i`ōpua 2020 is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide social, recreational, vocational, economic, educational, and cultural opportunities and infrastructure to Native Hawaiians to include the communities of the Kealakehe ahupua`a. It is a place for pilina (building and supporting one another through relationships) and pu`uhonua (a place of comfort, peace, and safety). For more information about La`i`ōpua 2020, visit its website, Laiopua.org, or call 808.327.1221.
     
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