The office We want to work in an "innovation kitchen" à la Nike's HQ.
On the guide, Jay Meschter, director of the Innovation Kitchen, a Nike product design lab, recounts how he and his team whittled away at the traditional track shoe until they came up with the feather-light Zoom Victory Spike for the Beijing Olympics.
The sign over the door of the first reads Innovation Kitchen.
Deqwas is financially backed by cross-country (US and Japan) incubator Innovation Kitchen, a Mitsubishi subsidiary.
Down a hallway from the Innovation Kitchen, Mario Lafortune, director of the Nike Sport Research Lab, rummages in a box and pulls out plaster casts of feet; one of them is of a foot belonging to Charles Oakley, a professional basketball player.
Located in Pasadena's Hastings Ranch area, the innovation kitchen features plush sofas and flat-screen TVs.
A Panda Express innovation kitchen and tea bar is now open in the Hastings Ranch area of Pasadena.
The company will gradually integrate elements from the innovation kitchen into existing Panda Express locations while the concept is evaluated.
Trying something fresh: The company is experimenting with a new style of restaurant it calls an innovation kitchen — an answer of sorts to the fast-casual restaurant boom a la Chipotle.
True innovation in the kitchen depends on the taste of the person doing the innovating.
