Frequently Asked Questions

Taste Buds Kitchen is a Kids Kitchen by day and an Adult BYOB Kitchen by night. Join us for a hands-on and entertaining cooking class, camp, party or corporate event where you’ll create a culinary masterpiece and memories with your friends and families. We love cooking with kids, families and adults, ages 2 to 99. As a national franchise brand, we also offer prospective new owners the opportunity to open their own Taste Buds Kitchen. Taste Buds Kitchen is truly the place to learn, laugh, cook.

You can view all our current kitchen locations here. Find your local Kitchen and view their upcoming cooking class and camp schedule and/or book a private event. With locations from coast to coast, hopefully we have a location near you. If we don’t yet, we hope to soon. If you want to be the one to open a local Taste Buds Kitchen, click here for more information about opening your own Kitchen.

We are looking for great operating partners to open Taste Buds Kitchen franchises in communities around the country. If you think this may be you, you can learn more here.

Select your local Kitchen and register for the class or camp of your choice with easy online registration. You can also check availability and reserve the Kitchen for a party or private event. It’s as easy as that!

Click here to purchase a Taste Buds Kitchen gift card to the location of your choosing. Gift cards are redeemable at the location from which they are purchased.

2 to 99 — literally! We love cooking with kids, families and adults.

Our Kitchens are always full of happy smiling faces, hosting events 7 days a week! Our office is open during normal business hours Monday to Friday. Reach out to your local Kitchen if you have specific questions about their upcoming class or camp schedule or to book a private event.

Taste Buds Kitchen is a nut-free kitchen. We do not cook with any peanuts or tree nuts or allow them into our kitchen. We do not use the nuts themselves, nut butters, oils or flour, or items containing the whole nuts. We are not however able to guarantee that all of our ingredients are produced in a nut-free facility. Additionally, we occasionally host events at off-site venues that may not be nut-free. Please contact your local Kitchen if you have any questions.

All of our menus are nut-free. We do our best to offer a wide variety of menus that cater to different dietary needs and restrictions from vegetarian to gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free and vegan. If you select an allergy-free menu, it is important to note that while the recipes are free of those ingredients, we are not an allergy-free facility for these ingredients. Recipes are cooked at group tables, and for your safety individual adjustments cannot be made. Please contact your local Kitchen if you have any questions.

If an individual participant has an allergy that would prevent them from enjoying what you’ve prepared, they have the option to bring in an individual portion of a nut-free outside food for their enjoyment. For example, a frosted cupcake or room-temp gluten-free pasta dish. The outside food cannot require heat or preparation and TBK will not serve this food to the client.

As a general rule for the safety of all guests, we do not allow outside food. All of our menus are nut-free and we take food allergies very seriously.

For kids’ birthday parties, we do make limited exceptions only as outlined below. If you plan to bring in outside food, you must inform us at least 5 days prior to your event and an outside food fee will be added to your booking. All items must be nut-free and not require a heat source, refrigeration or freezer space. Plates, cups, utensils and napkins will be provided. Please bring these items with you when you arrive. No advanced deliveries will be accepted. Taste Buds Kitchen reserves the right to turn away any outside food that does not adhere to our policy.

Birthday Cake – For savory menus, we always recommend our cupcake decorating add-on in lieu of a cake to enhance participant’s hands-on culinary experience. If your selected menu already includes cupcakes, we’ll simply add a candle to the birthday child’s cupcake creation so it’s photo-ready for the big “Happy Birthday” blowout moment. But if a full cake is a must-have family tradition, you may bring one. We’ll cut and serve your cake to the guests when it’s time to eat.

Snacks for Chaperones – Though we strongly recommend parent drop-off for our birthday parties to keep the spotlight on the birthday child and their friends and due to space constraints, you may wish to provide light snacks for a small group of chaperones. Birthday parents may bring in up to two platters for their chaperone guests. Outside food must arrive on platters ready for service so adults can help themselves while our culinary crew focuses on leading the party experience for your child and friends.

Snacks for Children – Party guests will make – and eat – the delicious menu you’ve selected! As our parties include plenty of food for the kiddos and participants will be engaged throughout the party, outside food is unnecessary and discouraged. Should you still feel the need to bring in something additional, snacks for the children must arrive ready for service so our team can pass them out when it’s time to eat.

Guest participation is subject to the execution of our waiver. Guests under the age of 18 must have their waiver signed by their parent or legal guardian (no nannies/sitters, grandparents, carpooling parents, etc). Any guests without a signed waiver will not be able to participate and will not be offered a refund or rescheduling. Please contact your local Kitchen to request the link to their online waiver if you don’t already have it.

You can reschedule your booking up to 5 days prior to the start time of your class by clicking the “Change booking” link included below your listed class date and time in your confirmation email. If you are unable to rebook yourself, you’ve missed your rebooking window. Do your best to make it to class or send a friend in your place, as we do not offer rescheduling within 5 days of the class.

To review our complete cancellation policy which all guests agree to at the time of booking, please click here. Taste Buds Kitchen will not be held responsible for unforeseen circumstances including schedule conflicts, illnesses, last-minute emergencies, and any other circumstance.

Event deposits are non-refundable and non-transferrable; if you’d like to change your date and/or time a new deposit is required.

Modification to the selected menu, guest headcount, add-ons and favors are acceptable until 5 days prior to your event. After this time, your headcount is a guaranteed attendance and will not be reduced regardless of how many guests attend.

To review our complete cancellation policy which all guests agree to at the time of booking, please click here. Taste Buds Kitchen will not be held responsible for unforeseen circumstances including schedule conflicts, illnesses, last-minute emergencies, and any other circumstance.

Want to join our team? We want to work with the best so if that’s you and you want to get involved in an exciting and growing company and industry, learn more and apply online. Just to warn you, smiling is a prerequisite.

Looking to partner with our fun-loving culinary brand? We’d love to speak with you further. Please contact us and we’ll be in touch promptly.

Taste Buds Kitchen takes pride in helping our local communities as much as we can. If you are a local non-profit organization and would like to have Taste Buds Kitchen donate a gift card or host a Cooking for a Cause event in our kitchen, please submit your request here.