The challenges for Community Kitchens include location, transportation, and leadership.
Some people feel intimidated when they are in institutional settings like schools.
Other possibilities are Community Centres or people's homes. Transportation is an even bigger challenge for Community Kitchens than it was for the cooking classes. It is very difficult for people to go home on the bus when they are carrying their shares of four or five different recipes, some of them hot. Since 1997, SPAN has overcome the transportation challenge by encouraging people in the same block or neighborhood to run Kitchens. Leadership is a significant challenge for Community Kitchens.