Business residence kitchens are about to change into authorized in San Diego County.
On February 25, San Diego will begin accepting purposes for Microenterprise House Kitchen Operations, also called MEHKOs, pronounced MEEK-ohs.
These are companies that cook dinner and promote meals from residential kitchens.
Patty Corona is happy to start out a house kitchen enterprise catering to seniors at her cell residence park.
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She realized methods to cook dinner dietary meals at Olivewood Gardens as a part of Nationwide Metropolis’s Cooking for Salud program, which Corona now coordinates.
“Once we realized about MEHKOs, it was an excellent concept for us and we help it,” Corona mentioned. “It is a mixture of our desires and the issues we have now been studying, coaching for all these years. And we by no means determine that they’d converge and change into a actuality. To have a MEHKO, it is simply to feed an even bigger household.”
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Legalizing MEHKOs in San Diego has been within the making since California allowed for his or her introduction in 2018.
Roya Bagheri is the manager director of the nonprofit C.O.O.Okay Alliance group, the group that helped lay the groundwork for the house kitchen coverage change within the state.
She mentioned there was nonetheless extra work to do.
“Particularly in areas the place there are meals deserts, that is offering extra wholesome entry. We simply wish to shine the sunshine on these home-based meals entrepreneurs and present that it is a actually nice choice and alternative and hopefully have that develop throughout the nation,” Bagheri mentioned.
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Corona and a minimum of 4 different Cooking for Salud “kitchenistas” intend to share the teachings they realized from their group by means of residence kitchen operations in and round Nationwide Metropolis.
She sees her enterprise mannequin constructing off of her earlier catering enterprise, which shut down through the pandemic. All she wants now are the fitting permits.
“I do not know the way this might apply if in case you have an everyday residence, if you’re renting an condominium, or, like in my case, I reside in a cell residence park. In order that’s my essential concern. If that is not an issue, meaning it’s a go for me,” Corona mentioned.
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A digital coaching workshop might be held by the county’s Meals and Housing Division on February 15 to assist enterprise operators perceive methods to legally run a house kitchen enterprise operation.
Translation providers for a number of languages might be supplied at the event.
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The county’s coverage motion will authorize MEHKOs all through the San Diego area for a minimum of two years.
County employees mentioned they’d research native MEHKOS through the non permanent authorization of the ordinance and convey again that information to the Board of Supervisors earlier than the ordinance expires for his or her consideration on whether or not to make it everlasting.
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