Pro Food Maker

About Pro Food Maker

You need more than inspiration to build your food business. Launch and scale your restaurant, bakery, CPG brand, food blog, or food truck with tips, strategies, and lessons learned from your favorite Black chefs, Black owned restaurants and Black content creators from around the world. Join the host, Mercedes Gosby, at the intersection of food, tech, business, and finance as she interviews food professionals and entrepreneurs every week to discover how to get started in the hospitality industry, and how to build a profitable food business. Visit profoodmaker.com for show notes, articles & more.

Publisher

Mercedes Gosby

Category

arts · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Oct 2019

Latest episode

15 Apr 2021

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Apr 2021

   30: Tips for getting your product into grocery stores w/ Planted Foods Co.

   Getting your product into grocery stores takes time and requires networking with retailers & buyers in the food industry. Ashley Kirk, Founder of Planted Foods Co, a plant based food company walks us through: How to get your products onto store shelves by networking and other strategies The consumer research Ashley conducted to decide the products she would sell Her winding career path that led to going vegan and building a plant based food business Full show notes at profoodmaker.com

2. 

   8 Apr 2021

   29: How to find investors for small food businesses w/Kube Nice Cream

   You won’t be able to bootstrap your food business forever and might need investors, says Kai Nortey, co-founder & CEO of Kube Nice Cream. This Black owned vegan ice cream manufacturer explains: Why venture capital (VC) may not be right for you as a food business owner The types of conversations you might have with potential investors Potential problems working with co-packers & getting into grocery stores Full show notes at profoodmaker.com

3. 

   1 Apr 2021

   28: Food truck marketing w/ The Food Truck Scholar

   Are you a food truck owner having trouble with marketing and keeping your social media pages updated? Ariel D. Smith, The Food Truck Scholar, has quick & easy tips for you. Ariel also chats about: How she created an audio diary for food truckers using her podcast Opportunities for current and future food truck owners The importance of insuring your deposit for events Full show notes at profoodmaker.com

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

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