Growing & Learning
A Professional Kitchen Designed to Help You Grow
This is a professional kitchen, but it’s meant to feel approachable, not intimidating. We believe good food businesses grow faster when the space makes sense, the rules are clear, and help is easy to find.
YVR Prep is designed to bridge the gap between cooking at home and operating commercially without throwing you into the deep end. We’re constantly learning how to do this better, and we build that learning into how the space runs every day.
No gatekeeping. No guesswork. Just a setup that supports steady progress.
A hands-on team with over 40 years of combined commercial kitchen experience.
We’re in the space every day. Chefs and operators who understand inspections, prep days, tight timelines, and thin margins because we’ve lived them. Support here stays practical and straightforward, focused on helping your business run smoothly.
Meet UsHow We Became YVR Prep
YVR Prep started the way a lot of good ideas do: people with different skills, overlapping problems, and not enough spare time. Jason was running a growing co-working space.
Ryan and Josh were chefs with nearly 40 years of combined kitchen experience and a food idea that needed, unsurprisingly, a kitchen. Add new parenthood into the mix and suddenly, efficiency mattered a lot more. We connected the dots and realized Vancouver needed a shared kitchen that actually worked for the people using it.
So we built one. Hands-on, from layout to equipment to workflow, based on what we wished existed when we were starting out.
