When you’re part of Hot Bread Kitchen
- $18-22/hrstarting hourly wage of our participants’ first job placement
- 360+active employer partners across NYC
- 600+entrepreneurs whose small food businesses we have helped seed, start, and scale
- 2,200+You’ll be among a community of over 2,000 Breadwinners who are driven, ambitious and ready to rise
Investing in Breadwinners. Transforming Lives.
Hot Bread Kitchen creates economic opportunity through culinary job skills training, food entrepreneurship, and an ecosystem of support for individuals who face barriers to meaningful careers.
Hot Bread Kitchen partners with a network of good food employers that offer flexibility, training, and opportunities for career and personal growth. We connect the participants in our food career programs with quality jobs in the food industry, including roles as bakers, cooks, and kitchen managers.
In our food entrepreneurship programs, we support a range of businesses, from caterers to consumer packaged goods to brick-and-mortar cafes, to help aspiring and current business owners thrive.
More than business support
“Hot Bread Kitchen has given me such a community of women. They are a resource beyond resource, connecting me with financial planning, mentorship, photography support… The entire team, this entire experience, has taught me how to dream. That’s huge.”
—Shelly Flash, 2 Girls & A Cookshop
PROOF Winner and Hot Bread Kitchen member
