New community kitchen opens in Downtown Fresno to help mobile food vendors

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Tuesday, a caller commissary room opened up successful Downtown Fresno. It offers a caller harmless abstraction for nutrient vendors.

Fresno's metropolis and assemblage leaders celebrated the expansive opening of AJ's Commissary Kitchen.

It's a spot wherever catering businesses and mobile nutrient vendors tin hole and bundle their nutrient for sale.

"This is really the archetypal commissary to beryllium capable to rent retired the room for compact mobile nutrient units," said Alejandro Cervantes, the proprietor of AJ's Commissary Kitchen. "They tin travel and navigator tamales, corn, thing that they want."

Mobile nutrient vendors tin besides store their nutrient carts there.

"This commercialized nutrient room and the 2 others that we're moving to money and get started volition let america to yet get a batch of the mobile nutrient vendors to yet get their nationalist wellness permit," said Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias.

"Because they present person entree to a commercialized kitchen."

Cervantes has been moving successful the nutrient manufacture for astir 3 decades. He adjacent helps negociate his mother's bakery.

For the past fewer years, Cervantes said he's been moving with the region and metropolis to get AJ's Commissary Kitchen up and running. He hopes this abstraction allows those smaller businesses to thrive astatine an affordable rate.

"Just the rent alone, deposits and everything you're getting everything here, the full deal, astatine $250 a week, you can't bushed that," said Cervantes.

Councilmember Arias said the metropolis plans to enactment with commercialized kitchens and groups similar the Hispanic Area Foundation to support the costs down.

Both metropolis and assemblage leaders anticipation that opening this commissary room volition not lone assistance mobile vendors but besides bring successful much ft postulation to the country truthful that it tin assistance tiny businesses successful Chinatown.

"I consciousness similar we're 1 of the parts of Fresno that get forgotten," said Cervantes. "With the closure of Tulare and Ventura for truthful galore years already, it's been hard connected businesses here."

Councilmember Arias said opening AJ's Commissary Kitchen is different measurement to assistance revitalize Chinatown.

"Opening this commercialized room country allows to bring tiny businesses who privation to commencement their ain edifice and nutrient concern close to the halfway of our Chinatown neighborhood," said Arias.

Cervantes hopes to spot each kinds of dishes being sold from this kitchen.

Mobile Food vendors who privation to acceptable up astatine the commercialized room tin telephone (559) 801-4044.

Small businesses tin besides sojourn the Hispanic Fresno Area Foundation for much information.

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