Apply to Use the Grow Local Kitchen
Are you ready to kickstart your food concept? The Grow Local Kitchen is now accepting applications for pop-up restaurants in our rotating rental kitchen. Build a customer base, hone your craft and perfect your recipes with flexible scheduling and reasonable rates. We're looking for a delicious and diverse lineup for our GLK incubator program, and we think that could be you!
The GLK offers options for single day pop-ups, multi-day pop-ups, weekly residencies, workshop rentals and prep shift rentals. Currently, it is available for foodservice operators to bring their unique concepts to the consistent NFM audience Tuesday through Sunday from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Evening workshop/demo rental and prep shift scheduling is also available.
The main purpose of the Grow Local Kitchen is to incubate start-up food businesses and establish proof of concept and a customer base in order to help them grow into full-scale restaurants. For this reason, priority application consideration will be given to new businesses or concepts that do not currently run a brick-and-mortar or food truck operation. However, there may be limited availability for those business types, so you are still encouraged to apply. Application acceptance and scheduling is at the sole discretion of Nashville Farmers’ Market management, and may take into consideration such as availability, product mix, market readiness, marketing and other variables.
After submitting your application, Nashville Farmers’ Market’s program manager will follow up regarding the status of your application and may request additional information. Please be prepared to submit all required documentation and create a Food Corridor account as soon as you complete your application in order to initiate the on-boarding process. Applications will be processed on an as-needed basis.
For a full list of all Grow Local Kitchen rental rates, kitchen policies, required documents, on-site equipment, Food Corridor instructions and everything else you need to know, please review the Grow Local Kitchen Handbook by clicking the link below. All applicants must read the handbook in full before applying.