Citizen Kitchens is a Nashville-based food business incubator and communal kitchen founded in 2015 by chef-turned-entrepreneur Laura Wilson. It offers licensed commercial kitchen space, storage, equipment, and business support under flexible monthly or hourly plans—helping food trucks, caterers, bakers, and packaged goods startups launch with less risk. With two locations (West Nashville and Hunters Station in East Nashville), it supports over 300 ventures to date, with many alumni going on to open brick-and-mortar businesses. Laura Wilson is a veteran chef with executive stints in New Orleans and Nashville before pivoting to support others through Citizen Kitchens. A Chattanooga native with a political science background, she launched the first 2,800 sq ft facility and later expanded to an 8,000 sq ft East location with market space, composting, gluten-free zones, consulting, and a vibrant entrepreneurial community. Passionate about mentorship, she measures her success by seeing members “graduate” into their own operations—a philosophy she sums up as, “the best way to lose a client is their success”

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