- June 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
At around 9 a.m. on June 15, Samantha Sherman, owner of The Hampton Grocer, arrived in a rented kitchen at Stony Brook University’s Food Business Incubator at Calverton. She soon left with the latest batch of The Hampton Grocer granola.
“I baked 300 pounds of granola in an hour,” Sherman said after finishing. “I do all of my production out of the incubator’s kitchen. It’s a great space with large ovens.”
While restaurants often faced a financial famine through much of the pandemic, Stony Brook University’s business incubator in Calverton is, if not in the midst of a feast, as busy as ever. Shared kitchens have cropped up across Long Island, giving culinary entrepreneurs a place to work, including this kind of culinary central.
“It’s incredible how many new companies have come in,” said Elaine Peterson, operation manager,…
