Cork Incubator Kitchens launched to help start-up producers

Cork County Council has fired up industrial-sized kitchens to help start-up producers cook up a storm for bigger markets.

The kitchens, the brainchild of Cork County Council, have opened in Carrigaline following nearly five years of planning and if, as suspected, they prove successful, the local authority has plans to build more in the region.

They are the first local authority-built kitchens in the country and can be rented out day or night. Artisan food producers from as far away as the West Cork peninsulas have signed up to use them.