The Foodpreneurship course is designed to equip trainees in food production—or individuals passionate about cooking—with the business acumen to turn their passion and skills into an enterprise. The course combines entrepreneurship concepts with modern trends in the food and beverage industry, encouraging participants to generate novel food business ideas. The program culminates in admission to the KCA University Business Incubation Hub, where participants receive support in prototype development, business case creation, patenting, and commercialization.
The global food service industry is worth over USD 2.6 trillion and continues to evolve with innovations like cloud kitchens, food trucks, grab-and-go services, vegan options, sustainability efforts, and food content creation. This growing list of trends creates vast opportunities for innovation. The course provides a guided approach to launching food start-ups with a higher chance of success.
The purpose of the Foodpreneurship course is to help trainees generate food service ideas and convert them into viable business enterprises. This includes learning about ideation, incubation, pitching, raising seed capital, and launching products or services.
This course adopts a practical-based learning approach, where learners actively engage ideation for food service businesses. Trainees will be exposed to case studies of successful business models in the food service industry. Trainees will be required to go for short externships in the industry where they will be required to document learning experiences from successful entrepreneurs. This unique teaching model will allow learners to gain insights on viable ideas and develop their skills in modelling ideas into enterprises thereby achieving the desired learning outcomes
This course is open for any person who is passionate about starting a food service business. However, it is necessary for trainees to be skilled in food production either by training or through experience. Trainees without prior training or experience in food production are required to enroll for a short course in either, pastry and bakery; barista and mixology or executive chef course alongside this program.