Are Home Kitchen Marketplaces the Future or a Risk to Consumers?

In this episode, Mike sits down with friend, food systems thinker and The Food Corridor founder Ashley Colpaart to talk about the rise of Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKOs) and what they mean for the future of food entrepreneurship. Ashley shares why she believes lawmakers are trying to avoid an “Uberfication moment,” and why she thinks shared commercial kitchens remain a critical access point for food founders. Drawing on her own origin story growing up in a family hot sauce business that couldn’t scale without infrastructure, Ashley explains why she became interested in shared kitchens as her professional focus and explains how it led her to build her company. You can read Ashley's recent essay on MEHKO movement here on her blog: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Are Home Kitchen Marketplaces the Future or a Risk to Consumers? is an episode from Smart Kitchen Show by The Spoon.

This episode is 41:56 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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