Food founders collaborating at a shared table in the The Pass workspace

Vancouver · Food, hospitality & the tech behind them

Vancouver's home for food founders.

A workspace wired into the industry, investors, and the people who've done it before. We get you connected.

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Building something in food? You shouldn't have to do it alone.

Not in a coffee shop. Not surrounded by people who don't get it. The Pass is office space, studios, and meeting rooms — plus the room where food people who are building things actually hang out. The desk is the easy part. The community is the point.

Food founder, by our definition: you feed people, or you build for the people who do. Sauce brand or SaaS, restaurant group or robot — same industry, same room.

A space built for food founders

Desks, private offices, a photo + podcast studio, and meeting and event rooms — everything except the cubicle energy.

A network that opens doors

Curated mentors, operators, and peers who've built and sold food businesses — in the room, not on a webinar.

Access to investors

Demo days, office hours, and warm intros to the people funding the next wave of food and hospitality brands.

The whole industry at one table

CPG founders next to the people building their ordering systems, logistics, and kitchen AI. First feedback, first intros — sometimes first customers.

Connected across the industry

  • CFIN

    Canadian Food Innovation Network — national R&D and funding partners for our founders.

  • Commissary Connect

    Vancouver's shared commercial kitchens — where our members cook and scale production.

  • BC Hospitality Foundation

    Community partner supporting hospitality workers across the province.

Membership

Month-to-month, priced for founders — not landlords.

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Hot Desk / Flex

$250/month

Flexible open seating, whenever you need it.

  • Open desk, hot-desking
  • 5 hours of meeting-room time/month
  • All community events included
  • Month-to-month
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Dedicated Desk

$400/month

Your own spot in a shared space.

  • Your own dedicated desk
  • 10 hours of meeting-room time/month
  • All community events included
  • Month-to-month
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Private Office

from $900/month

A private room for your team, month-to-month.

  • Private team room
  • +$150/month per extra person (up to 3)
  • 15 hours of meeting-room time/month
  • All community events included
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Food founders mingling at an evening industry meetup at The Pass

Our space comes alive at our industry meetups.

Founder dinners, demo days, investor office hours, and the kind of meetups where your next supplier, hire, or backer is already in the room. Members get every event included.

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Free. Event invites, discounts, and the inside track on Vancouver's food founder scene.

Come see the space

Tours take 20 minutes. Coffee's on us.