With thousands of gastropreneurs launching local food businesses around the U.S. - cupcake trucks and boutique farms, gourmet this and sous vide that - “food accelerators” are setting up to put them through tech-style incubator programs and turn their early-stage ideas into fully baked businesses.
It's one part Y Combinator, one part “Hell’s Kitchen.”
Learning From Tech Startup Best Practices
“Food companies can really learn from the tech world,” says Krysia Zajonc, CEO of Local Food Lab in Palo Alto, where the inaugural fall class of 12 startups included Brunched in the Face (an all-day brunch truck) and LifeBites, which makes energy snacks made from a traditional South African recipe. “In the food world there’s this idea that if you have your grandma’s recipe, you can put it out there and just because you love it the whole world will love it. But imagine saying, ‘I created an app that my grandma loves, so everyone else will love it too.’”
To read the original article: ReadWrite – Move Over, Fast Food - Here Comes Accelerator Food
