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Ready to grow and scale your food business in 2026?

We offer events, workshops and consulting to help you navigate your way to a successful food business. Understand your compliance obligations, price your product, and more!

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If you run a food business and want to check you have the right foundations in place to grow, our workshops and information sessions focus on the most important factors to consider:

Product design and development
Pricing and costing
Production and premises
Planning and process
Promotion and distribution

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Covering all your business pain points - from compliance to consumer demand.

We offer one-off workshops, from 45 minutes information sessions to three hours of focused workshop, where we take a deep-dive into a single topic and answer your questions.

They’re open to anyone, and perfect for those who are either starting out or who just want to get some more knowledge on a particular subject. You’ll meet others in your industry, learn necessary skills, hear from relevant experts, and apply your newfound practical knowledge to your business straight away.

We cover a huge range of topics, including regulations and compliance, marketing, branding and packaging, consumer demand testing, and process development. Our courses focus on specific pain-points for new businesses.

See our Eventbrite page for all upcoming workshops and events.

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Join us online to learn about the process of turning your delicious recipes into a successful packaged food business!

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Upcoming Sessions

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We’re delivering food business coaching across Melbourne and Australia.

Your success stories are our success stories.

Here’s a taste of some of our work.

Case Studies

Dumplings

Meal providers

Over the years we've had many producers of meals cross our kitchen threshold, but not many have stood the test of time and found a market that is sustainable over a period of more than 4 years. This case study is a common story and a conglomeration of several businesses.

They Come from all Walks of Life...

Mums, Chefs, IT professionals, marketing gurus, corporate escapees - these are just some of the people building their business and achieving their dreams in a kitchen incubator. Here are some of their stories:

Interview with Arepeland

Arepaland was born as an idea from a group of Venezuelan friends living in Australia for more than 20 years.

Interview with MINJUMS

Since I was at University, I dreamed of developing a unique product and having my own food company one day. After working in the Food Industry for more than 15 years, it strengthened the passion that I have of mixing ingredients and coming up with something unique and delicious. It was time to start my own food business.

Interview with the Wondersnack Co.

A few years ago as a snack-o-holic, I was feeling underwhelmed by the selection of savoury snacks in the market, which were either plain and uninspiring, or full of commercial additives masquerading as ingredients. Having trained and worked as a pastry cook, I thought that I could do better, and sought out to do just that. A few months later The Wondersnack Co. was born.

Interview with Raw Sip

I migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka when I was 20, for my social work studies. I’m a huge fan of exotic food and beverages and sharing my experiences with others. I got excited when I found an exotic fruit called wood apple which mainly grows in South East Asia – then I discovered the health benefits of the wood apple fruit and its unique flavour.

Interview with alg Seaweed

In my private practice as a dietician I saw a high prevalence of clients with thyroid problems, mild iodine deficiency and a lack of knowledge about seaweed and its applications.

Interview with Glovely Gelato (now Good Vibes)

I wanted to improve my health and also my family’s health. So I began researching food’s link to gut health and inflammation and started fermenting in my home kitchen.

Interview with LEAP Protein

I became a vegetarian as a teenager and became fascinated with health and nutrition and how food affects our bodies. I found myself malnourished, but seeking a diet that aligned with my environmental values, yet still gave me the healthy essential nutrients I needed. Then I had the LEAP Epiphany.

Interview with Damn Good Sauce

On a trip to America, our friend Carl introduced us to one of his favourite BBQ sauces. Blown away by its complexity and depth of flavour, we set out to make our own. After many nights, batches, beers and BBQs testing our creations, we knew we had something special when our friends kept on saying "Damn, that’s good."

“We got everything we needed to know from the course and would have changed nothing. We felt supported to work through the struggles we were having with setting up a food business, especially the regulations and food safety program. Also learnt ways to do things in a way that saves money!”
Andre, participant
“I sought assistance from The Business of Food team to launch my BBQ sauce business in 2018. Their expertise helped me to understand my target market, effectively utilize a commercial kitchen, prepare a business plan, define my marketing objectives and ensure I met critical industry requirements. Without that knowledge and expertise, I would not have been able to adequately prepare my business for launch. As a result of specialised coaching and mentoring, I felt capable and competent to enter an industry of which I had no prior knowledge. My business is now going from strength to strength and I could not have achieved this without help.”
Sarah, sauce company
“Jane Del Rosso was amazing. She is a fantastic facilitator. Jane has great skills and knowledge. Extra sessions to see her outside of the course were really helpful– they personalised the Program to my business idea and let all the participants address any other issues they had. The Program is perfect for someone starting a food business as it covers all the basics.”
Loredana, stock business
“For anyone starting a small food business, with no experience in the food sector, it would be essential as a real eye opener to what is required especially the regulations, laws, pricing and different ways you can launch a product/sell it.”
Marcela, ice cream business
“Jane Del Rosso as a person is so pleasant to talk to and easy-going to work with. She understands everyone has different views, and she has a lot of patience as she delivers the course and works individually with each participant, supporting people to view their business in a different way-- such is a positive challenge as a business owner!!”
-Issy, vanilla business

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