Need Help Asap For Kitchen Rental

Decorating By heavenscent Updated 26 Sep 2007 , 2:43am by ladyonzlake

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heavenscent Posted 25 Sep 2007 , 3:08am
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OK I am meeting with a church that might let me use there kitchen. This is a first for both of a us. What do you pay ballpark or what should I offer? Money is tight for us now but the cake buisness is really had a couple of huge breaks so I need to finde a kitchen. Please help
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heavenscent Posted 25 Sep 2007 , 3:19am
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heavenscent Posted 25 Sep 2007 , 4:49am
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hello is anyone out there?

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WarEagle Posted 25 Sep 2007 , 2:12pm
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I'd be interested in knowing this, too...I'm looking into the same idea...
Can someone help us? Thanks...

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shebellas Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 1:43am
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you might want to try the "decorating Business" board...there are probably more people there who rent...

good luck!

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heavenscent Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 1:55am
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thanks

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jamhays Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 1:58am
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the ball may be in your church's court. They need to make sure they won't loose their tax exempt status by accepting "rent" from you. You may be able to offer them a "love offering" from a portion of the price you get from each cake. Or offer discount/free cakes for any baby/bridal showers they have.

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byinvitation Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 2:01am
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mmm, interesting...I'm not sure a church which is a non-profit organization can charge a rate for someoe to use the kitchen. However, making a donation would be okay. Also how will you/church handle liability ins and those type of issues.

also can a church let an outside caterer (you) sell cake to the public? I know my church had one type of permit to be able to serve food to its own members. But had to get a special permit to sell food to the public whe it hada Holiday Shop and had a catererbring in food.

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kcat3740 Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 2:16am
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I work in commercial lines insurance and we write a lot of churches, I can tell you that if we were covering the church and they rented the kitchen to you we would require that you had liability insurance and that you named the church as an additional insured. So factor in insurance cost in what this will cost you. icon_wink.gif

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indydebi Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 2:17am
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also can a church let an outside caterer (you) sell cake to the public? I know my church had one type of permit to be able to serve food to its own members. But had to get a special permit to sell food to the public whe it hada Holiday Shop and had a catererbring in food.




but wouldn't this be different in that the CHURCH is not selling food .... they are selling time/space in their kitchen and their TENANT is selling food.

It's a good point, though, and should be checked into.

Also be sure that the church is a licensed kitchen to start with. I've seen lots of churches, community centers, senior centers, etc., that had full commercial kitchens, but they were classified as "warming" kitchens and did not have to be health dept approved.

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MCook Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 2:27am
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Churches run day cares in their buildings--why not a bakery?? A church in my city is renting their kitchen to a caterer. My parent's church just built a new church and in the steeple there is whatever is needed for a cell phone company to transmit off thier steeple--microwaves???--anyway, seems churches now days can make money for themselves in allot of ways.

I'm very interested in knowing how this turns out for you. Please let us know.

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ladyonzlake Posted 26 Sep 2007 , 2:43am
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Yes, do keep in mind that YOU will need insurance. I had thought of renting as well and contacted my insurance agent who told me I would need my own liablility insurance. I have heard of some people renting kitchens priced per hour ($10 per hour) or renting by the month depending on how many hours/days they use it per month. There are many threads reguarding this in the business section on CC. Good luck!

Jacqui

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