Archive for Food – Page 2

$6 Million…at 13 years old

Posted by Porterdm23 
· Sunday, October 8th, 2023 
· 3 Comments

Alina Morse is an inspiration. Just like the rest of us, she hated it when her parents told her she couldn’t have candy. “It will hurt you teeth!” they would say. Well, 9-year-old Alina had had enough of this and decided to make an alternative. After months of YouTube research, product testing, and sampling, Ms. Morse created the “Zollipop”. These lollipop-style candies are vegan, dairy-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, and actually beneficial to the consumer’s teeth. Fast forward four years and one can find Zollipops in Whole Foods, Kroger, Target, and many other stores. Here in the craziest part: Her business is worth $6 million dollars and she only has seven employees. Alina has gotten an audience with ex-first lady Michelle Obama and been on the Today show. Finally 10% of her company’s earnings go to “One Million Smiles” which is a company geared to fighting the rapidly growing tooth-decay epidemic.

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Categories : Candy, Food, vegan speciality food

Blog Post #2: Jake Cohen

Posted by steinmetzjp21 
· Saturday, October 7th, 2023 
· 1 Comment

Jake Cohen is a young entrepreneur cook from New York City who has gotten his way on New York’s best-selling book, “Jew-ish.” His first cookbook has a bunch of recipes consisting of unique Jewish dishes. For example, a couple of his Jewish dishes are called rainbow sprinkle babka and challah. Other foods that he makes are Macaroon Brownies, pumpkin Spice Babka, and roasted tomato brisket with many more delicious recipes in his cookbook   Jake knew that the current Jewish cooking market was boring and bland and knew that so much more could be made out of these delicious Jewish customary foods.  Jake Cohen has found a unique niche where there wasn’t much exciting entrepreneurial activity due to a lot of dormancy in this particular market so he decided to take advantage of this opportunity and has successfully marketed his ideas through social media and made appearances on some popular TV shows to become a successful cook influencer online. After publishing his first cookbook, he went on popular TV shows like Good Morning America, Live with Kelly and Ryan, and the Food Network. There are also a lot of articles written about him in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Through TikTok and Instagram, he has made short videos on some of his recipes, which have reached over two million people. His food is so good that even Britney Spears said, “the coolest thing I’ve ever seen,” and said, “It’s inspired me to take on a new passion in the cooking field!” Jake reconciles an ancient traditions with our modern times, his recipes become a celebration of a colorful and vibrant Jewish history. He managed to combine Jewish food traditions with more modern American plates to appeal to his customers.

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Categories : Food, Uncategorized

Robert Luo with Mi Terro

Posted by ortizaf20 
· Thursday, December 15th, 2022 
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Robert Luo is an environmentally aware, three-time entrepreneur. He has sold two of his businesses, and his third is a company called Mi Terro, which began with duffle bags made from corks and plastic from the ocean. The company seeks to change both the fashion industry and the food industry. More recently, the company has started to create and sell t-shirts made from spoiled milk. The milk is turned into protein fiber that replaces plastic, and the fiber is turned into shirts sold online. The beginning of Mi Terro’s new venture in t-shirts was Luo’s visit to his uncle’s dairy farm in China. There was so much spoiled milk because the farm’s buyer had switched to a different farm for supply. Luo’s uncle asked, “is there a way that we can sell this spoiled milk?” and the idea of Mi Terro began to form. Luo’s story seems to be a perfect example of ideas colliding to create a complete idea. Luo was already into sustainable fashion created from waste, and Luo’s visit to his uncle’s farm gave him a new piece of the idea for milk t-shirts, the next venture of Mi Terro. Luo said in an interview, “Leverage the existing connections those that have helped them start a business- either financially, or mentally helped them out. Build connections and be humble. Meet people and be open-minded.” Luo recognizes the importance of networks of ideas, that ideas can come together from various sources and that we can purposefully seek out interpersonal connections to allow these ideas to collide and create a new, whole idea. Luo continues to be innovative and moving on to the “adjacent possible,” the next available innovation: Mi Terro is now beginning to test technology that turns whey protein, a byproduct of cheese and yogurt, into packaging to replace the plastic packaging on products.

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Categories : Fashion, Food

Tom Bilyeu – Quest Nutrition

Posted by Christian Suceveanu 
· Monday, December 5th, 2022 
· 2 Comments

Tom Bilyeu is a young entrepreneur from California who co-founded the extremely popular health and wellness food company, Quest Nutrition. Tom Bilyeu’s story to uprising is very inspirational. Instead of creating his company solely for profit making, Tom wanted to create a product that would allow others to live a healthier lifestyle. For a good part of Tom’s early adult life, he was overweight and lived an unhealthy lifestyle. However, he was still motivated to become a successful entrepreneur and wanted to incorporate health into a business idea. Tom ended up having an amazing weight transformation, and simultaneously initiated Quest Nutrition, a health food company that offers a variety of protein snacks, most notably their bars. In the fitness industry, Quest protein bars are one of the most well-known product in their field. Almost every gym, convenience store, and grocery store that I have been to has some form of Quest Nutrition product. Quest Nutrition has a great variety of snack products with very good flavors and a great macro/nutrition label. In 2014, Quest Nutrition ranked No. 2 on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing U.S. companies in 2014. A few years ago, Tom and other co-founders of Quest sold the company to Simply Good Foods Co. for $1 billion. Leading up to the acquisition, Quest was generating revenue over $300 million in that year. Tom’s story is a perfect example of a young entrepreneur using a problem and a need of inspiration in his own life to create a product that not only helps himself with that, but countless others.

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Categories : Food, Health

Fit Fuel

Posted by HovisNM20 
· Monday, December 5th, 2022 
· 2 Comments

Sean Kelly had a very intriguing idea with his business Fit Fuel. He took an idea that was already invented and made it his own. Vending machines are very convenient for people to grab a quick snack or a quick drink. They even have vending machines in gyms which can defeat the purpose of a workout. When he was in college he came up with Fit Fuel. His business sold healthy foods to be put into vending machines. Eventually, by 2007, he was able to sell vending machines filled with healthy foods. This business was called H.U.M.A.N Healthy Vending. He partnered with Andy Mackensen to help fund this business along with Fit Fuel partners. Within the vending machines consisted of protein bars, yogurt, gluten-free products, and other healthy food options. Sean’s plan was to be the leading anti-obesity company in the country. To also help this cause, 10% of the proceeds are given to obesity-fighting and malnutrition charities. It is very clever how he built his idea from other ideas and that he is also giving back. He first came up with this idea by watching a women grab a coke before going on the elliptical. This shows that ideas can come from anything and anywhere. It is important to know that any idea can make a difference. In this instance, Sean just needed to observe in order to come up with something that could improve the product in this situation.

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Categories : Beverages, Charity, Fitness, Food, Health, Healthy Lifestyle, Vending

Jaequan Faulkner – Old Fashioned Hotdogs

Posted by petschkeRA22 
· Monday, November 28th, 2022 
· 1 Comment

Jaequan Faulkner, age 13, did not mean to make the news. He just wanted to make some money on the side like lots of kids his age. He was selling old fashioned hot dogs for $2 and $1 chips and sodas from his front yard. How did this blow up?

Someone sent a complaint to the Minneapolis Health Department because Faulkner’s side hustle was operating as an unlicensed vendor. Faulkner became the latest case of a stream of kids trying to make side money just to be shut down by suspicious/angry adults. Talk about someone being a Karen… expecting a kid to have a vendor’s license.

Anyways, the officials didn’t immediately swoop down on Faulkner’s endeavor and shut it down. Instead, they tried to figure out how they could help the kid. When checking the business out, they were impressed by Faulkner’s drive and decided to teach him how to get his business up to code. In fact, once Faulkner’s stand passed inspection, the inspectors paid for the $87 fee!

Faulkner’s uncle helps him run the business, which serves customers from 11AM to 3PM. Faulkner is very on top of running his business, and estimates sales of 100-150 dogs sold a day. He plans on starting his own restaurant once he gets out of school.

As Jaequan Faulkner said himself, “My auntie always told me, ‘Can’t nobody stop you but you.’ If you say ‘I can’t do that,’ well, then you just set yourself up for failure.”

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Categories : Food, Teen Entrepreneurs

Vinusha MK

Posted by rosiealexander 
· Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 
· 2 Comments

Vinusha, who started her own baking business at nine years old, decided that she would make her mother a birthday cake. After using countless resources, videos, and friends to help her bake the cake, she was able to surprise her mother, all while realizing that baking was something she was good at and wanted to pursue. Four Seasons Pastry, sells exclusively cupcakes, and despite it being a new business, Vinusha has achieved significant success.

She landed an internship at a five-star hotel café, while also selling over 600 cupcakes since 2019, which she makes in her free time at home. Covid-19 did cause Vinusha’s business to struggle, but she felt lucky to have many supportive influences around her, like her parents and her three mentors. Suresh Chinnaswamy, Lakshmi Reddy, and Geethakrishnan Sir, her three mentors, have excelled in fields of baking, and made names for themselves in the world, much like Vinusha is doing.

Being a young entrepreneur is a difficult job on its own, but Vinusha takes it a step further by juggling her own business, her schooling, and baking lessons. She practices new Indian recipes with her mother in the free time that she does get, where she’ll practice making dishes such as Butter Chicken, Gobi Masala, and Paneer Butter Masala. Baking truly takes over Vinusha’s life, and she mentions that her entrepreneurial goals do sometimes clash into her academics. She will often finish her studies, then go straight to her kitchen to practice more baking.

Her dreams for Four Seasons Pastry are limitless, although she does also dream to pursue an education at a prestigious culinary school in either France or Switzerland. She hopes to develop a way to make her desserts healthier, and then develop a website to advertise and sell her cupcakes.

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Categories : Baking, Cooking, Entrepreneurship, Food

Emily Yoder – Sustainable Treats

Posted by petschkeRA22 
· Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 
· 1 Comment

Have you ever wondered why granola bars have ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup or thiamin mononitrate? Since ingredients like this have been proven harmful when consumed by humans, then why are they still in our food?

A Kent state student, Emily Yoder, decided to challenge this questionable norm. Through research, she discovered ingredients like this were used to keep food from spoiling, make it cheaper with artificial flavor alternatives, and replicate natural aspects of food that disappear when being processed, not to mention that granola bars and such often have an unnecessarily high sugar content.

Since none of these ingredients were necessary to making food, Emily decided to make REAL food, so that people avoid the unhealthy chemicals.

Emily’s granola bars, brownies, and other treats went above ditching the unnatural chemicals: all of them are vegan and gluten free, organic, and made with local ingredients that are mostly non-GMO, packaged with eco-friendly materials. They are also free of refined sugars, trans fat, cholesterol, and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.

Emily sells her products at Ohio farmers markets, and has additional sales in other seasons. As of 2017, she planned on getting a space in Cleveland Culinary Launch & Kitchen (CLLK) and hiring her first employees. Whether or not she was successful is unclear.

Emily’s idea is inspiring because she challenged the norm and tried to make something good. As she says, “There’s no point in being an entrepreneur unless you’re trying to change something for the better.” Even if you end up failing, it was worth a shot and a great learning experience.

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Categories : Baking, Enviornmental, Food, Handmade, young entrepreneurs

Eitan Bernath

Posted by brakmg22 
· Thursday, November 10th, 2022 
· 2 Comments

This young entrepreneur’s fame began at an early age, but truly started to take off after participating in the famous cooking shows of “Chopped” (at 11 years old) and “Guy’s Grocery Games.” Food and cooking tools is what his life has revolved around since he was young. Eitan Bernath started producing content at 12 years old and has yet to slow down since. He took this love of culinary items and used his passion to spark the start of his own entertainment company, Eitan Productions about 7 years ago. 

Amazingly enough, he’s only 20 as of this year. Named to Forbes’ 30 under 30, Eitan also has a large base of followers on various forms of social media and produces ”food and lifestyle content for more than 5 million social media followers,” according to the Columbian. He has also launched his own cookbook called “Eitan Eats the World this year.” Eitan commented on the wide range of recipes and foods in his book by saying ““Knowledge is power and knowledge is so important. The more you learn about the world around you, the better you can be an informed and kind citizen for the world.” He wanted to insert originality into his cookbook, but had hesitations. In today’s society, it’s hard to create something that someone hasn’t already. In fact, I’m sure many people across the world would argue that there is only what has been created before being reused in slightly different ways. He took basic recipes and some of his favorite recipes from different cultures and combined them to make something ingenious, tasty, and new.  

Eitan, despite many people’s objections, calls himself a chef. He doesn’t need to work in a restaurant to call himself such. “I think a chef is someone who earns money cooking, who works in the kitchen,” he says. “I think at the end of the day, whatever you want to call what I do, whether chef or not, the world is changing.”

I find it amazing that he had one singular passion and decided to go a different route than simply just becoming a chef in a restaurant. He’s exploring the boundaries of what it actually means to be called a “chef.” By utilizing social media platforms, he’s taking advantage of what has been seeming to work for so many other young entrepreneurs and displaying something new on it. 

 

Check out his website here: https://www.eitanbernath.com/2022/10/21/spiced-carrot-cake-with-whipped-honey/

 

The Columbian article:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/jun/15/food-star-eitan-bernath-leans-into-world-culture/

 

Forbes article:

https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2022/food-drink?profile=eitan-bernath

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Categories : Business::Entrepreneurs, Cooking, Food

Supper Jam

Posted by KunkelmannPL21 
· Sunday, October 30th, 2022 
· 1 Comment

Fraser Doherty was only fourteen years old when he decided to start his first business called Super Jam. This idea came about after Fraser took a visit to his grandmother’s house in Scotland. During this visit Frasers grandmother decided to pass the time by teaching Fraser how to make jam with some of her very own recipes.  Her jam was made completely and 100% out of fruit and tasted amazing! Fraser got to thinking, surely other people would enjoy this jam as well. Not only because it tasted amazing, but it was free of unnatural ingredients found in most jams on the market at that time. Fraser began biking door to door in his neighborhood asking people if they would be interested in buying his jam. To his delight more often than not people were beyond willing to give it a try. Shortly after his first round of selling he began to receive calls from his neighbors who couldn’t speak highly enough of his jam. Word quickly spread and shortly Frasure became overwhelmed with jam orders. He was having trouble keeping up with school while trying to put his best effort into his new business venture which was proving to become incredibly successful, so he made the decision to drop out of school at age seventeen and work full time on his business. After dropping out Frasure rented out a factory a few days a month in order to meet demand. This decision ended up working in his favor because after he was able to fully focus on his jam career, he was able to get in contact with Waitrose a high-end U.K. supermarket and went on to become the youngest ever supplier to a major supermarket.  Five years after this event Fraser’s Super Jam launched in Korea and Japan. By the year 2019 Fraser has sold his 5th million jar of Supper Jam. Even Queen Elizabeth has heard of Supper Jam! She awarded Frasure a MBE medal which is for service to business in the United Kingdom. Fraser then went on to launch several other food companies including Beer52. To quote Fraser “My story shows that what can start a passion, with love and hard work, can grow into something amazing. Something that changes your life.”

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Categories : Food
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