The Restaurant - Food and Hospitality School is named "ICHE", a word from an ancestral Manabí language, that refers to the area’s most delicious delicacies: corviche, ceviche, viche, among others.

"ICHE" is a Food and Hospitality School that:
- Trains youth, prioritizing women.
- Teaches about sustainable farming and fishing, as well as cooking, nutrition, entrepreneurship and hospitality.

"ICHE" is a Restaurant that:
- Serves as an internship opportunity for students
- Facilitates meetings between lovers of good food who are passionate about social transformation
- Acts as an 'Incubator' to nurture and inspire other restaurants and eateries to use local and healthy products

The Iche Food Innovation Lab is designed as a technologically equipped space to co-create new ways to both value traditional food and to innovate upon it, always based on the culinary culture of Manabí.

Many different actors in the culinary ecosystem with the aim of adding value will identify the potential of specific local foods and dishes that is not presently being tapped.

The students in the Food School will co-create culinary innovations with experts in food science and enterprises. Each potential initiative will be investigated for its feasibility, using sensory testing, shelf life testing and quality control.

FUEGOS intends to contribute to the establishment of an Ecosystem for open and inclusive innovation, bringing together collaboration from State institutions, civil society organizations, international cooperation agencies, the private sector, international humanitarian and development organizations and academic entities from Ecuador and the rest of the world.

In this way, traditional knowledge is valued and empowered along with science and technology in order to ensure that Manabí is a province that innovates by harnessing its culinary identity.