"Stokes County offers a refreshing experience for tourists and a fresh location for businesses, entrepreneurs and skilled workers."
Angelou Economics Study 2003

 

StokesCORE was formed as part of the Program for the Rural Carolinas funded by the Duke Endowment in 2003 as a response to the declining tobacco industry, plant closings, job cuts and corporate downsizing that have impacted Stokes and surrounding counties.

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Shared Community Kitchen
Early Adopters Survey

Please take a minute to fill out this survey. StokesCORE is collecting this information for internal purposes only. We will not sell your name or email addresses to any outside sources.

1. What type of company or group do you have now or want to be?

Is your business: Start-up Existing

2. What food item(s) are you now or would you be interested in preparing?

      How Interested
  Are you now preparing? Interested in Preparing?
Lo
1
 2 3 4
Hi
5
1. Bakery Items
2. Catered Meals
3. Sauces/ Salsa / Condiments
4. Jams/ Jellies
5. Pasta
6. Dry Mixes
7. Herbal Supplements
8. Value-Added Produce
9. Other:
10. Other:

Comments:

3. What facilities or services are you currently using to meet your food service needs (e.g., church kitchen, rental kitchen, home kitchen)?

4. What type of equipment would you need to prepare your food product?
How interested?
    Lo
1		 2 3 4 Hi
5
Standard range/oven
Steam jacketed kettle
Commercial Mixer
Filling & Packaging equipment
Walk-in cooler
Food processor 
Walk-in Freezer
Dish Washer
Stainless Steel Table
Dehydrator/ drying equipment
Convection Oven
Other:

5. What ingredients are essential to your products?

6. How many times and hours per week might you be interested in using this facility?
Daily Hours per week: Time of Day:
Weekly Hours per week: Time of Day:
Monthly Hours per week: Time of Day:
Holidays Hours per week: Time of Day:
Occassionally Hours per week: Time of Day:

Total hours per week of estimated usage:

7. Who are your customers, or what type of customers are you targeting?

8. What type of a business are your looking to run?

9. What is your annual sales goal?

10. How do you plan to market your product?

11. Do you have a business plan available for review? Yes No

12. Would you be interested in sharing services in addition to the kitchen facilities? Such as:
Phone answering Secretarial
Copy machine Fax
Personal computer Postage meters
Office space High speed Internet Connection
  Other:

13. Would any of the following seminars or classes be of interest to you?
(Check as many as apply.)

Preparing a business plan for a food-related business.
Marketing assistance for a food-related business.
Microenterprise and self-employment opportunities.
Meeting local, state and federal health regulations for food preparation and food product distribution.
Nutritional considerations for prepared meals or food products.
Starting a business legally.
Obtaining and using credit.
  Other:     

14. Respondent Information

Name:

email address:

Would you be interested in attending a meeting to discuss future plans for the proposed shared-use value added food center? Yes No

Would you be interested in receiving information about your area of interest? Yes No

This questionnaire was designed for entrepreneurs, companies and organizations, which might be prospective tenants of the proposed facility. If you have other suggestions or comments regarding the need for a kitchen incubator in our community, please use the space below:

P.O. BOX 1163
WALNUT COVE, NC 27052

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