Kitchen to Commerce: Fast Track Workshop Series
🍽️ Kitchen to Commerce
Founder-Led Workshop Series for Purpose-Driven Food Entrepreneurs
From Kitchen Tables to Retail Shelves — Without Losing Your Mission, Health, or Sanity.
💡 About the Series
Kitchen to Commerce is a fast-track, 7-part live workshop series for emerging food & beverage founders ready to scale from recipe to revenue. Whether you’re cooking in a shared kitchen or gearing up for your first grocery order, this program gives you the tools, confidence, and connections to grow — the founder-first way.
Built by founders, for founders — with leading voices from across Canada’s food innovation space.
🧭 What You’ll Learn
Each session is packed with tactical insights, live mentorship, and real-world templates to help you:
✅ Prepare your product for retail
✅ Build systems that don’t break you
✅ Pitch to buyers (without losing your voice)
✅ Price for profit — not panic
✅ Understand margins, metrics, and money
✅ Stay sane, strong, and in mission
📅 Workshop Dates
🗓️ Live every Tuesday & Thursday at 12:30 PM EST
📍 Hosted on Google Meet
| Date | Session Title | Guest Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:30-1:30 PM EDT | Kick-off & Community Welcome | Primie Cegnar (StellaEats) |
| June 3, 12:30 -1:30 PM EDT | Selling with Soul | Primie Cegnar + Kiesha (Kiesha Creates) |
| June 5, 12:30-1:30 PM EDT | Start Small Yet Humble | Julia Kirouac (Nud Fud) |
| June 10 12:30-1:30 PM EDT | Operational Readines | TBA |
| June 12 12:30-1:30 PM EDT | Vision Meets Velocity (Part 1 & 2) | Julia Kirouac + Kiesha (Kiesha Creates) |
| June 19 12:30-1:30 PM EDT July 8 12:30-1:30 PM PST | 3:30-4:30 PM EDT | Financing & Forecasting Bonus With Quennette Martins With Todd Kopet | Queenette + Todd (Kopet & Co.) |
| July 3 12:30-1:30 PM EDT | The Founder’s Playbook | Melinda Kopet + Todd Kopet (Alkeme Foods) |
| July 10 12:30-1:30 PM EDT | Founder Roundtable & Spotlight | Guest Panel |
👥 Who Should Join?
This series is built for:
- Early-stage food makers & founders (0–5 years in business)
- Shared kitchen users, home producers, and small-scale manufacturers
- Functional, clean-label, and dietary-focused brands
- Entrepreneurs ready to grow with purpose, not panic
🎁 What’s Included
✔️ Access to all live sessions
✔️ Templates for branding, pitching & production, etc.
✔️ Founders-only roundtable & community access
✔️ Replay links for every session
✔️ Bonus tools worth over $1,000
🎟️ Pricing
| Tier | What You Get | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| General Access | All 7 Sessions + Toolkit + Roundtable | $140 CAD |
| Vendor Partner Rate | 4 Core Workshops + All Bonuses | $100 CAD |
| Single Session | One Live Workshop | $35 CAD |
🌱 Financial assistance available — just reach out.
🔗 Ready to Cook Up Something Big?
Join Canada’s founder-led workshop series bridging food entrepreneurship, systems change, and community.
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Register Now on Luma
We’ll see you at the table.