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Business: Vintage Kitchen
Location: 317 Linden St., Scranton.
Owner: Sandi Graham
Year established: Opened in Clarks Summit in April 2016; moved to Linden Street, Scranton, in May.
Number of employees: Four teachers.
Tell us about your business: Vintage Kitchen offers cooking and lifestyle classes. The cooking classes are based on a menu or ingredient. Most classes end with a meal of the food cooked during class.
Our goal is to enhance individual and family meals.
Our children’s classes are called Apron Strings and in the same spirit as adult classes. For younger children, we offer classes for parents and children together.
We also offer sewing classes. Those are project-based so people can sign up by project. We do birthday parties, corporate team-building events and private parties.
What are your secrets to success? People want to spend time with friends and learn new things, so the timing’s right for a business that offers experiences.
It’s also about being open to new ideas and persistence. I end up reading a lot of cookbooks and magazines. I’m aware of the trends, and I kind of put my own little twist on the recipes. I make them my own.
I’ve got people, teachers, who are devoted to what they do and just want to share.
What is your biggest challenge? Having enough time to schedule all of my ideas. There’s just not enough days in the month.
I have more ideas than I have time. Sometimes you can only capitalize on some of them because of the seasonality of the food.
There’s also what I call “dead dates” when nobody wants to take a cooking class, like Black Friday, though you might get a private party.
Learn more about Vintage Kitchen at www.face book.com/VintageKitch enCookingClasses.