Stock Pot Malden

Stock Pot Malden is a mission-driven food company and shared kitchen in Malden that prepares healthy, culturally meaningful meals for schools, childcare centers, afterschool programs, seniors and families across Massachusetts. Its meals are built to meet government reimbursement standards, including school breakfast and lunch programs, with culturally appropriate and family-style menus. The model links institutional clients with local ethnic restaurant entrepreneurs and gives those cooks kitchens, investment and training.

The company signed its first long-term lease in 2013 on a 7,500-square-foot building that long served as the Malden High School commissary, and after a buildout it opened to Boston’s first wave of food trucks. Bakers, caterers, charcuterie and barbecue makers followed, then larger centrally prepared meal companies. Stock Pot is backed by Co-Creation Ventures, a social-impact angel fund, and applies the Ecosystem Co-Creation theory developed by C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy and co-founder Francis Gouillart.

What to Know

• The flagship kitchen serves Greater Boston clients and tests standards for the statewide network.
• Employees and co-venture partners receive classroom and kitchen-based training.
• A grant-funded high-volume production kitchen supports larger meal programs.
• The company also invests in regional kitchens beyond Greater Boston.