Alchemist microenterprise academy (AMA)
Alchemist Microenterprise Academy is a 12-week business training course. AMA is designed to make sense of the confusing aspects of starting a food business. The next AMA session will begin in September 2022. We will begin doing outreach and taking applications in late-July 2022. To stay informed click the button below and fill out the interest form.
- How to develop a Business Plan
- Types of Food-based Businesses
- Overview of Business Structures
- Financial Literacy and How to Access Capital
- How to Navigate Permits
- Human Resources and Legal considerations
- Food Safety
- Product Development
- Product Pricing
- Marketing
- And more!

Click here for a sample course outline. Participants will have the option to test for the ServSafeⓇ Food Manager certification (at a discounted rate) at the completion of the 12-week course.
We completed our pilot cohort of AMA in August 2019. Watch some of the businesses from our inaugural graduating AMA cohort highlighted on Studio 40 Live:
Side Hustle Pizza/Table Bread/Breakin’ Bread Project
Penny Produce/Culinary Mantra
Lizzy’s Bakehouse/’Ono Pono/Lee’s Nut’zzs