Sarasota's Premier Shared Commissary Kitchen

Hourly Kitchen Rates

Monthly Storage Rates

Hours Per Month: Prime / Bakers

10-20 $30 / $25

21-30 $29 / $24

31-40 $28 / $23

41-50 $27 / $22

51-60 $26 / $21

61+ $25 / $20

Prime Hours - 8am – 8pm

Baker’s Hours - 8pm – 8am

10 hour Min. per month

Food Truck and Trailer Plan

$300/month + Tax and TFC Fee

This Includes Access to the YCP Kitchen. Additional Hours or Storage will be billed at the regular rates.

Initial YCP Membership Fees

$1500 - Caterers, Virtual Restaurant, Food Trucks or Food Trailers and Food Product Producers

$750 - Hot Dog Cart

An Annual Membership Fee of $250 will be added to your January Invoice

These are non-refundable fees Your Initial Membership Fee Also Covers Your First Month at YCP, Tax, and TF

Monthly Storage Rates

Refrigerated Storage -

$100 per Month per Door

(1, 2, & 3 door commercial coolers)

Walk In Cooler Rates:

$40/month per 3ft. shelf

$50/month per 4ft. shelf

$60/month per 5ft. shelf

Freezer Storage -

$50/month per shelf

Monthly Dry Storage:

$30/month per 4ft. shelf

What is the Tax and TFC Fee?Florida and Sarasota County want a slice of the pie in the form of 7% tax

The Food Corridor (TFC) - is the back office software program that runs all of the behind the scenes stuff like... Scheduling, Invoicing, Account Creation and Payment Processing. They get 2% for ACH payments and 4% for Credit Card Payments

Short Term Rentals Considered on a Case by Case Basis

Join the YCP Kitchen

Monthly Storage Rates

Join the YCP Kitchen

Your Culinary Place LLC can assist in helping create your new business type (LLC, or S. Corp) as well as getting your F.E.I.N. , Florida Sales Tax Number, County and State Licenses and Food Corridor Account Set Up.

The charge for this service is $750 and is Non-Refundable

**This does not include any fees to be paid directly to the state for your LLC ($125) or your DBPR or Dept. of Agriculture License ($450)

** Your Culinary Place LLC is being directed by you in assisting with paperwork and is not offering any legal or tax advice. Please check with a tax or legal professional with any related questions

Once You Get Your License -

We will then sit down and discuss exactly what your needs are as we develop a customized proposal based on your specific business goals for both now and in the future.

* If you have not applied for your license within 60 days of Signing up, you will be charged a $150/ monthly fee to hold you space for up to 6 months. After 6 months you will need to re-apply to Your Culinary Place LLC

So Now It's Time To Get Cooking

What You Will Need on Your First Day

$2,000,000 Liability Insurance Policy

Naming Your Culinary Place L.L.C. and Norino Properties L.L.C. as additionally insured parties

We recommend F.L.I.P. or call Victor at Gifford-Heiden Insurance

Nationally Recognized Food Safety Certification

You must have with you at all times while you are in the kitchen a copy of your Nationally Recognized Food Safety Managers Certification (i.e. ServSafe or NRFSP)

You must always have you or one of your staff as a licensed food manager on site while you are producing anything. Any additional staff members must also have a minimum of a Food Handler Certificate (or have it within the first 90 days of employment or starting in the YCP kitchens)

A License with DBPR / Agriculture, Florida Dept. of Revenue and SRQ County

You must have a Business Use Permit from Sarasota County as well as a Business License from the State of Florida. You must have current copies of all necessary permits and licenses, with you at all times . As a convenience, You will also upload all of your needed documents to The Food Corridor (our back office software company) to ensure compliance as well as being reminded when your documents are getting ready to expire. The Food Corridor will notify us both as the expiration time approach

YCP Kitchen Orientation

As a new client of Your Culinary Place L.L.C. you must successfully complete the kitchen user’s orientation session and tour of the kitchen facilities. During this kitchen tour you will receive a copy of our Kitchen Client Pack which contains our Policies and Procedures as well as the YCP Operations Agreement.

Equipment List Sample

Major Kitchen Equipment

2 Sets of Double Stack Convection Ovens

2 - 6 Burner Ranges with Full Size Oven

1 - 10 Burner Ranges with Double Ovens

2 - Star Char-broilers

8 - Commercial Induction Burners

2 - 4ft. 2 Door Refrigerated Work bases

10 - 2 Door Commercial Coolers

2 - 3 Door Commercial Coolers

6 - 2 Door Commercial Freezers

8 x 8 Walk-In Cooler

4 - 3- Compartment Sinks

2 - Dish-Machines

Commercial Vacuum Packaging Machine

10" Berkel Slicer

Dual Tankless Hot Water Heaters

500 Lb. Ice Machine

7, 10 and 20 Quart Table Top Mixers

Other Kitchen Equipment

Food Processors

2 - Kitchen Aid Mixers with (new) Pasta Maker Attachment

Commercial Immersion Blenders

Mobile and Stationary Speed Racks

Various Mobile Carts for Loading and Un-Loading (only)

Metro Racks for lots of Dry Storage Space

Kitchen Smallwares

We maintain a good inventory of:

Pots and Pans

1/2 and Full Size Sheet Pans

Full Size Hotel Pans - 2in. 4in. and 6in

Various 1/2, 1/4, 1/6 and 1/9 pans

Various Shapes and sizes of plastic Cambro's

Multiple Whisks, Spatulas, Spoons, Ladles and More

Different Shapes and Styles of Chef Knives

Mixing Bowls

Measuring Cups and Weighing Devices

Colanders, China Cap, Chinois

These Smallwares are to be used in the YCP Kitchen only. If they disappear it will be at the sole discretion if YCP replaces these items. We recommend that you keep your smallwares in your storage area when not in use so they do not get mixed in with our equipment

Your Culinary Place - Sarasota's Premier Shared Commissary Kitchen

Create, Evolve and Share the Love

Your Culinary Place L.L.C. offers clients great commercial kitchens for rent. This shared commercial commissary kitchen in Sarasota is centrally located and easy to use. Your Culinary Place Kitchens currently offers more than 7000 square feet of kitchen space over 7 separate kitchens for your business to use. We have 2 gas hot lines with 8 ovens, 22 gas burners and 2 - 24 inch char-broiler, perfect for your business to operate from. Our Bakery Space has 4 commercial bakery ovens and 6 induction burners (with new induction cookware). Our "Market" Space was redesigned to accommodate 2 sperate "Ghost Kitchen" lines with Vulcan Ovens, Induction Burners (also with new induction cookware) and lots of Refrigeration as well as additional prep space and vacuum sealing area. We have now also taken a new space, the new "Fusion Space" is directly across the street from the main location offering even more space for new businesses to join the Your Culinary Place family. YCP offers you lots of Dry, Refrigerated, and Freezer Storage, all available for a monthly rental. Your kitchen comes stocked with many of the items you will need to succeed like assorted small-wares, pots, pans, catering items, mixers and other small kitchen appliances reducing your need to bring or store these items, saving you money.

Equipment Listing

Chef and Business Incubator

In today's world we can all use a little help. Your Culinary Place is not just a shared kitchen environment but a place to help build and grow both you and your business. On our logo you see Chef Incubator. It is our belief that if you help the person or the chef grow, that at the same time you will find substantially stronger business growth as well.

Having more than 25+ years of Culinary and Management experience covering many different types of operations as a Private Chef, Business Owner, Culinary Director, US Treasury Food and Beverage Manager, and Executive Chef, Chef Gordon brings not only his knowledge of the culinary industry but his relationships with business professionals as well as local and national chefs...all available to help grow your operation and take it to the next level.

Chef's Feeding Florida.org

Help in the Fight Against COVID

Your Culinary Place has teamed up with Chef Jose Andres and World Central Kitchen to provide chef made meals for our front-line Hospital Staff, First Responders, Seniors, Veterans and anyone else who may need a meal. Using many of the ideas from #chefsforamerica our PAY WHAT YOU CAN model depends on your generous donation to help us fund our mission and feed those in need.
Your donation will go to Chefs Feeding Florida.org which is the non-profit foundation started in 2020 by Your Culinary Place.

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