Insurance / Safety Concerns

I've been looking into the same type of arrangement with my church out here in CA - nothing formal just looking into it. The lady up at the parish hall did express concern when I mentioned using my cookshack on the premise even during the day so never got around to mentioning all night cooks.

Out of curiosity, have you tried looking into other non-church commissary kitchens shared by other caterers, etc - they seem more open to these types of things? Also, if you don't mind me asking, about how much was the church charging you to use their kitchen?

TNBrian - I have talked to other facilities, but I like the idea of contributing to the church. Whatever product is left after the function can be used in their efforts to feed the hungry. We talked about $50 per month, however, I have no idea what the additional electric usage will be so we have not yet agreed on an amount.

thanks for the info - good luck to ya.

just to add my two cents. we have obtained insurance thru tapco from our allstate agent. tapco also has our homeowners insurance and are from what i understand the danish arm of lloyds of london and are willing to insure houses in our area against hurricanes. at no time have they expressed concerns over an all nite cook or insuring our rig which we pick up the 30th. as far as comissary ideas we got lucky and hooked up with a local charity in return for doing one fund raiser a year for them and the directors picture with us at the ribbon cutting. grey water dump is a similar deal with a 10 buck charge. our setup tho is somewhat different then yours in that our 8 x 18 foot trailer tech is self contained right down to nsf refrigeration and freezer and all i need is 120 power or go to the new honda generator we are buying so essentially we are just listing the commisary and grey water as required by an antiquated law more concerned with roach coaches then modern portable kitchen but hey rules are rules. i was half expecting tapco to require a fire supression system in the 5 foot hood but they never did and we are having both an sm150 and fec100 in this unit.
our practice meat we will be donating to a local homeless charity which will allow us to write off this cost and hopefully help some folks as there is no way my wife and my self could ever eat that much meat and our cpa says that this falls under the menu developement heading of the irs rules.
hope this helps you
jack
2 Greyhounds....SMOKIN!!!!