Kitchen Never Closes - Friday, December 28, 2009 (Denver Business Journal)

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What’s cooking? Or more to the point, who’s cooking?

Well, an attorney, a paralegal, mortgage banker, information tech pros, one truck driver and other refugees from the corporate world, as well as many food-service industry professionals. They’re among the 80 people who rent space at the Kitchen Network, formerly known as the Morrison Road Complex, creating new food products they hope will be the next big thing.

“Everyone recognizes the need to eat; it’s a basic thing,” said Dennis McFerrin, co-owner of the Kitchen Network along with his wife Elaine. “It seems to be the path of least resistance that people want to try. And it’s not terribly expensive to get involved.”

The kitchen, which has 11 cooking stations in 3,000 square feet, is open 24 hours a day and is busy most of the time. Overall, there’s 12,000 square feet; the McFerrins also run the Kitchen Network Bottling Co. in the same building.

Vic Papazian, owner of Primo Specialty Foods, bottles his cherry chutney at the Kitchen Network owned by Elaine and Dennis McFerrin, in the background. The McFerrins have worked with Papazian for more than four years. They help clients build their food businesses, along with providing them kitchen space and equipment.

Dennis and Elaine McFerrin, co-owners of the Kitchen Network, rent space to 80 people in the 3,000-square-foot kitchen.

Elaine and Dennis McFerrin, owners of the Kitchen Network in Denver, with some of the products from businesses that have taken advantage of their kitchens, equipment, bottling facility and one-on-one business consulting services.