WHAT IS A SUPER KITCHEN?
Outside the Bowl currently has 4 Super Kitchen locations:
Tijuana, Mexicali, and Juarez, Mexico, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Our Super Kitchens are strategically placed in highly populated cities with high childhood poverty levels, so we can efficiently reach the most number of children. In each country we partner with schools, churches, orphanages, and other ministries to reach more children. We do what we do best (produce high quality nutritious food), so they can do what they do best (educate, disciple, and care for children). We are one part of a wholistic solution to poverty.
What makes our kitchens super?
Super Kitchens are centralized kitchens that cook thousands of meals daily that are distributed to ministry partners who feed the most vulnerable in their communities. We currently partner with more than 300 feeding partners in Haiti, Mexico, Malawi, and South Africa.
Super Kitchens are innovative. Kitchens utilize steam-jacket pots that have the capacity to cook 1,000 meals an hour. Our kitchens in Tijuana and Mexicali are currently producing 48,000 meals daily combined.
Super Kitchens are financially sustainable. At a volume of 2,000 meals a day, the revenue coming in from those meals covers not only food expenses but also operational costs. Every meal sold beyond 2,000 meals becomes the seed money to launch our next Super Kitchen.
Super Kitchens cook a variety of nutritious meals each month. Getting food to those who are hungry is important. Getting nutritious meals to those who need it most is even more important. Main meals include a ton of vegetables and protein. Sides are often salads, fruits, and vegetables.
Super Kitchens offer an affordable solution to feeding partners’ meal programs. Because we cook in such large quantities, Outside the Bowl sources ingredients at a lower cost. These savings are passed on to our ministry partners saving them between 30-70 percent of what they were spending on feeding. This is what we call our ministry multiplier model.
Super Kitchens invest in the local community. We source food from local farmers, distributors, and markets. Each kitchen employs 8-10 locals offering steady jobs which creates stability for each family employed by Outside the Bowl.
Super Kitchens provide the food so our ministry partners can focus their efforts on sharing the good news of Jesus!
