FLORENCE-The Shoals Entrepreneurial Center was recently featured on the Alabama Department of Commerce website with a story highlighting their culinary incubator program. The Shoals Culinary Complex, located in Florence at the former Burrell-Slater School, offers clients a fully equipped commercial kitchen at reasonable hourly rates. The facility is currently being used for the production of a variety of products including gumbo, barbecue sauce, salsa, cheese straws, breads and gourmet meals.
Greg Canfield, secretary of the Alabama Department of Commerce, said the SEC’s culinary incubator fits in with a statewide goal to foster entrepreneurship and innovation, which is a key element of state’s economic development growth plan.
“The Shoals Entrepreneurial Center’s culinary incubator is a model for the support we want to provide for entrepreneurs in a variety of business sectors,” he said. “Whether it’s a food venture, high-tech startup or another type of project, we are striving to help people take innovative ideas to the marketplace and achieve success.”
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Media Release/Shoals Economic Development Authority
