MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Food entrepreneurs in Mobile now have access to a new nonprofit commissary kitchen. A project the Hispanic American Business Association of the Gulf Coast has worked on for the past three years.
“This is a dream because I can see all these women and men in underserved communities that want to be food entrepreneurs create a future for them, for their families, and for their children,” President of HABAGC Leida Javier Ferrell said. “So, it’s a fantastic community service that we are trying to provide.”
Javier Ferrell says the Commissary Continental Kitchen is a space meant to be shared by small food businesses.
“We have dry and cold storage here,” Javier Ferrell said. “We have two actual kitchen spaces, a baking space, and four areas of prepping. So, we have several spaces here that people can be working at the same time in the same kitchen doing their own business.”
In addition to the kitchen, the …