# Event Details

- **Event Name**: New Year, New Business - Entrepreneur/ESO Meet & Greet
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us in the Grand Rapids Downtown Market second floor Greenhouse for a networking happy hour just for food business entrepreneurs!

Meet some of the amazing entrepreneurial support resources that West Michigan has to offer: Start Garden, GROW, MSU-Product Center, Downtown Market Incubator Kitchen, and SpringGR will all be there.

You'll also be able to network with some of West Michigan's up-and-coming food entrepreneurs, food industry veterans, lenders, business plan coaches, entrepreneurial mentors, and more! This event is free to attend.

By registering for Culinary Conversations events, you permit the use of your image (including, but not limited to photographs, audio recordings, or videos), without charge and without reservation—all or a portion of your story, likeness, and voice in future Downtown Market promotion.

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The Culinary Conversations Meetup group is a partnership between the Grand Rapids Downtown Market Education Foundation, GROW, MSU Extension, Start Garden, and SpringGR.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/grand-rapids/new-year-new-business-entrepreneur-eso-meet-and-greet/200029587547741
- **Event Categories**: business, meetups, meet-and-greet
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 26

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029587547741?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=grand+rapids-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Grand Rapids
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 435 Ionia Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI, United States, Michigan 49503
- **lat**: 42.9551
- **long**: -85.6705
- **full address**: 435 Ionia Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI, United States, Michigan 49503

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Grand Rapids Downtown Market (https://allevents.in/org/grand-rapids-downtown-market/3451673)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/a1384cc8769d2e897f8bd30ac69f56451f6ea6e549fbae6b9334e3dd8e79fcad-rimg-w1200-h671-dcffffff-gmir?v=1771150559
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/a04b7dcee6fb6ae9cc1658610ed50d2eaf3b235a97a667dd3f0c1afd58df521c-rimg-w300-h300-dcffffff-gmir?v=1771150559

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 435 Ionia Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI, United States, Michigan 49503
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Grand Rapids Downtown Market
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** business, meetups, meet-and-greet
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about New Year, New Business - Entrepreneur/ESO Meet & Greet ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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