Volunteer Opportunity - Community Food Box Volunteers
Spice Kitchen in looking for volunteers to assist in the kitchen with packaging products into boxes and delivering them to customers via contactless curbside pick up!.
Community Food Boxes is a pre-order delivery service that offers cold and ready-to-heat meals, appetizers, and desserts made locally by Spice Kitchen entrepreneurs with 100% of profits going back to the featured chefs!
Spice Happenings - Kiki & the Kitchen
Join Kiki Sharma as she tells us about her journey from growing up in a refugee camp in Nepal to becoming an Utah restaurant owner and manager! Kiki and her family are an inspiring example of resiliency. Despite Covid restrictions, Kiki continues to run Bhutan House Restaurant and make a living for her family. Join us for this live recording of a community podcast and talk to Kiki about her life experiences!
Spice Happenings - Noor and his family become U.S. citizens
Noor is a 45-year-old chef and the father of five. He and his family fled war-torn Syria to seek refuge in Egypt before they resettled as refugees to the United States with support from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City. He says one of the benefits of living here is that children with disabilities can still attend school, including three of his children who live with disabilities. Finally, five years and seven months later, after waiting and studying, Noor and his family are becoming citizens.
AmeriCorps VISTA Creates Connections
As Value Chain AmeriCorps VISTA for the International Rescue Committee, my goal is to build networks between viable agricultural producers, value-added and culinary producers, and retail markets. I aim to develop a streamlined process for purchasing local products, as well as trainings and toolkits for value-chain coordination. A value chain not only generates economic opportunity for producers, sustainably strengthens the local food ecosystem and allows communities/consumers to form personal connections to their food."
Spice Happenings - Spice Kitchen's chef Abudu hosts fundraiser Yemeni children
Meals center on our culture, our ideas of home and family, they open up the community to a broader table. Sitting down to eat together can be powerful. Of all the questions that come up when opening a food business, though, Abudu of Kafé Mamai acknowledges that ’why’ is the most complex. For Abudu this may be especially true. While he loves to share his “culture and experience,” he is also passionate about using his small business to support others in his local community and around the globe. In August, Abudu worked to organize a fundraiser in support of Yemeni children.
Employment Opportunity - Spice Kitchen Incubator Business Operations Intern
Title: Spice Kitchen Business Operations Intern
LOCATION: US Programs, Salt Lake City, UT
START DATE: August/September 2020
DURATION: 3-4 months, 15-20 hours per week
SCOPE OF INTERN WORK: The Business Operations Intern will assist in providing existing businesses with guidance in business operations, such as preparing business registration renewals, property and income tax form preparation, applying for appropriate insurance, and scheduling health inspections. This position will also include maintaining a calendar for all license/permit renewals as well as guides to teach entrepreneurs the above operational processes. This intern may also work closely with the Food Business Scale-Up AmeriCorps VISTA on expanding opportunities to food truck entrepreneurs and packaged food vendors, ultimately creating more opportunities for entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and better provide for themselves and their families.
Employment Opportunity - Spice Kitchen Incubator Catering & Events Intern
Title: Spice Kitchen Catering & Events Intern
LOCATION: US Programs, Salt Lake City, UT
START DATE: August/September 2020
DURATION: 3-4 months, 15-20 hours per week
The Catering & Events Intern will support the International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City’s Spice Kitchen Incubator program, a food business incubator program supporting new American and low-to-moderate income entrepreneurs. The intern will assist Spice Kitchen Incubator businesses during their time at special events, and will work with the Retail and Events Specialist to plan and carry out catering events for Spice Kitchen customers.
Employment Opportunity - Spice Kitchen Incubator Development and Fundraising Intern
Title: Spice Kitchen Development and Fundraising Intern
LOCATION: US Programs, Salt Lake City, UT
START DATE: August/September 2020
DURATION: 3-4 months, 15-20 hours per week
The Development and Fundraising Intern will assist in implementing Spice Kitchen’s 2020-2021 Development Plan, including the addition of numerous community and donor engagement events and activities, fundraisers, communications, and logistics of launching the upcoming Café and Storefront.