Posts Tagged ‘Food & Beverage’
Elisa Marshall on creating warm, French-inspired spaces with Maman, a collection of NYC-based cafés and venues
Describe your business in a few words? Maman is a New York City-based collection of cafés and event venues, offering family inspired recipes with French influences in a warm and welcoming home like environment What made you take the leap to start your own business? Before I opened Maman, I had many passions and there…Read More
How Natasha Case of Coolhaus is disrupting the dessert space with cutting-edge ice cream creations
Describe Coolhaus in a few words? We are an innovative dessert company, specializing (for the time being) in ice cream/ice cream novelties. We are known for thinking outside the box, super unique partnerships, a truly cutting-edge brand identity and an inventive way of entering the marketplace with our trucks, brick and mortars, and now national…Read More
Katie Angel on how a TikTok trend inspired her to launch Whipped Drinks
Describe your business in a few words? Whipped Drinks is an at-home kit that makes premium Colombian whipped coffee in just 60 seconds. What made you take the leap to start your own business? Oddly enough, the pandemic! My husband and I were at home watching TikTok videos (as I think almost everyone was doing…Read More
Tianna Gawlak of The Bakery Box on launching a modern and self-service bakery
Describe your business in a few words? The Bakery Box is a brand of dessert ATMs that offer luxurious mini cakes and macarons 24 hours a day. What made you take the leap to start your own business? COVID-19 hit traditional bakeries hard, I was really disappointed to see some of my favorite dessert spots…Read More
Molly Fienning on how Red Clay turned her into a hot sauce fanatic and CEO
Describe your business in a few words? Red Clay is a cold-pressed, made-for-foodies hot sauce and hot honey brand, named “Tabasco for the 21st century” by Food and Wine Magazine and “a hot honey to elevate your meal” by The New York Times. Crafted by a talented Southern chef, we focus on delicious flavor, sustainably-sourced…Read More
How Suzy Karadsheh turned her passion for Mediterranean food into the successful blog and e-commerce platform, The Mediterranean Dish
Suzy Karadsheh shares with us how she turned her hobby for cooking authentic Mediterranean meals into a business, pivoting to meet customers needs, and the importance of taking breaks for yourself during the work day. Describe your business in a few words? The Mediterranean Dish is the leading online resource for wholesome and approachable Mediterranean…Read More
How unexpected obstacles led Randi Smith to her sweet career as founder of Sugar Euphoria
Randi Smith sits down with us to talk about the realities of starting a business as an immigrant and how unexpected challenges led her to pivot and achieve new success within the baking industry. Describe Sugar Euphoria in a few words? A cake design and confectionery studio that creates sweets for all of life’s special…Read More
In Conversation with Erica Liu Williams of gr8nola
Describe gr8nola in a few words? Delicious, low-sugar superfood granola. What made you take the leap to start your own business? I was working in the tech industry for about four years when I started to get the itch to do my own thing. Two things triggered this desire: 1) working in tech and being…Read More
In Conversation with Andrea Kerzner of Lekka Burger
Describe your business in a few words? Lekka Burger is a plant-powered burger restaurant I launched with acclaimed vegetarian chef Amanda Cohen in NYC. We serve delicious plant-based burgers, salads, fries and shakes out of our Tribeca location, and also ship specialty burger kits nationwide. What made you take the leap to start your own…Read More
In Conversation with Laurel Orley of Daily Crunch Snacks
Describe your business in a few words? Daily Crunch Snacks is a new, award winning, new, uniquely crunchy, sprouted nut snack that’s KETO, non-GMO certified, Vegan certified and Paleo. Through a 4 day multi-step process, our almonds are soaked in purified water, activating germination, or “sprouting,” and then dehydrated. The result: a Uniquely CrunchyTM nut…Read More