The past couple of days I have been calling churches to ask about renting their kitchen. The ones where I have talked to someone don't have commercial kitchens. I am thinking of just looking for space to rent and I think I have a good idea.
If I were to rent a commercial space have my licensed commercial kitchen, maybe I could rent kitchen time to others in my area that have been baking from home and really want to be legal. I wouldn't have a store front. I would just have the space set up and they would be responsible for getting their own license and insurance to cover their business.
I was thinking to have two work stations one for me and one for the renter of the day. This way I wouldn't have two people that didn't know each other in the place at once and have some big flour and sugar fight. I would have oven to start with, two sink stations, each work station would have a mixer so the person wouldn't have to carry theirs back and forth, two fridges and two cooling racks. I am not a competitive person,I could work with others. I think there are enough customers for everyone. Everyone has their own special flair.
I was thinking I could charge by the day or by the hour. How much I'm not sure. I was thinking I could do this to cut down on my rental costs. What do you guys think? Honestly Pros and Cons.
I would love to do this too. Just so that I would have a place that doesn't have all my other junk in the way. I came across this site and they are located in Kirkland WA (Seattle area). You could probably email them with your questions. It looks like they have alot of space and can do alot of other entertaining if you needed to. Good Luck!
http://www.starrynightscatering.com/ Click on kitchen rentals.
I am going to try to visit them when I go see my son
I rent space from two sisters who turned their guest house into a commercial kitchen for their organic desserts business. They rent hourly, or a flat monthly fee ($500). They told me that it's been *very* lucrative for them. If you have the resources to build a kitchen, I think it would be a great business proposition.
At my kitchen they never book more than one person in the kitchen at the same time, and I really like it that way, but if you don't mind working with another person, then go for it! 
thanks onebigdogmama for the link.... That's great that someone else is doing this. That place looks super nice. I wish someday to have a place like this.
kelleym I'm glad to hear from someone that is renting kitchen space from another baker. Can you tell me what they provide for your rental fee?
I'm honestly not looking to get rich off of other bakers just to offset my rent. And what I want to do won't be super fancy just a simple kitchen that's clean and legal... I gotta crawl first i guess. Even just to have one person to share the space with would be nice.
Their normal rental fee is $10/hr for more than 10 hours a week, or $15 for less than 10 hours a week. My volume isn't very high so I only need a couple of hours a week, and they are kind enough to let me have it for $10/hr.
For that amount, they gave me one shelf for dry storage and one shelf in the refrigerator, which is plenty for me. However, I think for the $500/month flat fee people, they have their own refrigerators and multiple racks of shelves.
Their place is not fancy either, and the equipment is obviously not new, but it is licensed, and at $10/hr much cheaper than most commercial kitchens.
I'm not trying to sound mercenary at the expense of other bakers, but if you have the resources to build a kitchen and are able to turn it into an income-generationg proposition, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 
Their place is not fancy either, and the equipment is obviously not new, but it is licensed, and at $10/hr much cheaper than most commercial kitchens.
That's good to know that their equipment isn't new. I think $10 is a fair price. I will definately have to consider this as an option. But if I can find a church first then I would rather do that. Less money to come up with in the beginning. Oh well keep your fingers crossed for me.
This is good information and food for thought. I am going to fish or cut bait here and open a kitchen rental, but my stuff isn't anywhere near as fancy as that starry night and that freaks me out... on the other hand I don't there is something like that in my area.......
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