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 Accelerate Your Food Business through our Roadmap & Ecosystem

 

 

 

 

 

How It Works

Our Accelerator helps you build your successful food business — from developing a category-leading product to expanding nationally. We do this through our Four Phase Roadmap, accelerated by our Ecosystem of Kitchen, Distribution, and Stores.

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10x faster launch than the national average 
90 days to market with a product people want 
250% higher success rate at $10mm valuation as a company through our Four Phases
 

 

Access in every phase:

  • Our Ecosystem
  • In-House Team of Experts
  • Industry-Leading Partnerships
  • Group Sessions & On Demand Courses
  • Investor Network

  • Individual Coaching
  • Playbooks & Operational Workbooks
  • Knowledge Base with 450+ articles, videos, and webinars
  • Pre-vetted preferred industry suppliers


MEET SOME OF OUR MEMBERS

Snacklins, Samy K
Maspanadas
Vegetable & Butcher
Luis Solis, Caribe Juice
Jesse & Ben, Swizzler
Michael Haft, Compass Coffee

Hear about the journey from Union Kitchen Accelerator Members:

Our Ecosystem

Access our Ecosystem of Kitchen, Distribution, and Stores as an Accelerator Member. By owning your manufacturing in our Kitchen, you are able to create products your customers love. Our Stores provide direct customer feedback, allowing you to iterate and find product market fit aster. And our partners, District Distribution allow you to saturate locally, building a strong foundation for regional and national expansion. 

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  • BUILT FOR MANUFACTURERS
  • Learn to be the best at manufacturing your product without the high upfront costs of building your own facility or using a co-packer
  • Build consumer-driven products
  • Licensed facility (including USDA-Meat, USDA-Organic, and Gluten-Free Certified) with a team of trained food safety professionals on site
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  • Distributors want to see that you have sales volume before bringing you on. Stores want to work with brands already on a distributor
  • Our distribution allows you to build your proof of concept and break into stores
  • Build a strong local foundation
  • Services over 70+ accounts and purchases $2mm+ annually from local founders a year
Grocery Store

 

  • Launch your market-ready products into our stores! 
  • Learn what customers want (and don't want) with access to sales data and direct feedback
  • Use the sales data to pitch other stores and show that it is something their customers will want to buy again and again
  • Set up demos and learn directly from customers!

In-House Expertise

We’re in it everyday, running grocery stores, driving distribution trucks, and working with national brokers. We are intimately familiar with every element of the supply chain, from manufacturing through store shelves. We have years of experience building the BEST CPG brands and you get to take advantage of it all!

Industry Partners

We help businesses launch products 8x faster with the support of our leading industry partners.

  • We do the pre-work for you -- We’ve vetted all of our partners and narrowed down the packages to exactly what you need for launch saving you time, money, and effort.
  • We connect the dots - Things work a lot better when suppliers talk to each other. We facilitate all hand-offs, join for calls, and make sure things move smoothly along the supply chain.

OUR PARTNERS

Interested in Partnering?

Join us in building the best CPG brands! We'd love to learn more about your business goals and the best ways to support all the incredible brands in our ecosystem. 

Drop us a line here

STARTUP STORIES FROM OUR ACCELERATOR MEMBERS

From Launch to Scale