Hometown Annapolis:
Teen Opens Successful Shaved Ice Business
“Katie Neighoff is a busy entrepreneur and the owner of a new business in Galesville, the “Sno Shak.” At the Shak, she sells 24 regular and diet flavors of sno-balls.
For Katie, the business is a way to earn money for college. It might also turn out to be an […]
Star Tribune:
“Catallia Mexican Foods turns out more than a million tortillas a day using four automated production lines at its Eagan factory. The company, aided by financing from a Cargill Inc. subsidiary, has 48 employees.
Cruz Gooch started out selling her tortillas a case at a time to supermarkets. She also started her business by outsourcing […]
MiamiHerald.com:
It didn’t take David Lopez long to figure out the last thing he wanted was to be just another cog in a corporate wheel.
During his freshman year at the University of Central Florida while completing an internship at a Fortune 500 business, Lopez, now 26, was marched into the company cafeteria with his co-workers and […]
Greenbiz.com:
Nearly a decade ago, Seth Goldman began brewing his dream business in his own kitchen, with a thermos of tea, some old Snapple bottles and help from his B-school professor and partner Barry Nalebuff. Today, Goldman, “TeaEO” of Honest Tea, reigns over the nation’s fastest-growing organic bottled-beverage company, with projected 2007 sales of $23 million […]
Entrepreneur.com:
Every day, millions of people rush off to work or read the news with a piping hot cup of coffee they’ve just bought. These consumers are fueling the $12.27 billion coffee industry and, by association, the coffee sleeve industry.
Moving on to the day’s next task, however, happens to be a little more difficult if your beverage is singeing your […]
SoutheastTexasLive.com:
Leo Danna never had any formal culinary training, but he spent years working behind the counter at his parents’ old restaurant, the Quality Cafe. Being half-Italian, he said, he also had a knack “for throwing stuff together and making it taste pretty good.”
So 12 years ago, he began tinkering in the cafe’s kitchen to produce […]
EastValleyTribune.com:
Kristen Senseman learned to love wine from her parents while growing up in Scottsdale, although the 24-year-old has only been old enough to taste it for a few years. Now she and seven of her friends — all under 30 — have their own label, Hope Wine, a brand with a cause.
Three of them, in […]
JamaicaPlainGazette:
When Francesco Calderaro came to the United States from Palermo, Sicily eight years ago to pursue a master’s degree, he was amazed at some of the things that passed for “authentic” Italian food, he said in an interview last week. The JP resident said he was particularly shocked at most of the coffee that was […]
NYDailyNews.com:
Danny Meyer opened his first restaurant more than two decades ago at the age of 27, borrowing money from reluctant family members.
He’s built that into an empire of seven restaurants that includes Union Square Cafe and Gramercy Tavern, which are consistently ranked by the Zagat guide as among the city’s most popular dining spots.
Your Money […]
Richmond.com:
When Mike Gilbert spilled orange juice on his pants in the late 1990s, it caused more than just a stain.
For Gilbert, an aspiring entrepreneur at the time, it was his “Eureka!” moment and the rest has been fizzy delicious history.
Gilbert is the creator of The Switch, a carbonated 100 percent juice beverage that got its […]
TheStreet.com:
Cooking up smokin’ steaks is easy and much more satisfying than fancy catering, Rick Ivey and his wife realized when their catering company was asked to do barbecue for an upscale wedding in 1999.
One year and $7,000 later, Ivey opened Virginia BBQ out of a former dress consignment house in Ashland, Va., and began cooking […]
Upandrunning.entrepreneur.com:
Here’s a tip for your restaurant startup: Go green. Whether you’re fast foods, fine dining, takeout or delivery, serve foods that are as nutritionally correct, organic and as socially correct as you can make them. That way you’ll ride the trend toward healthier eating that’s already obvious on both coasts and coming soon to the […]
TheStreet.com:
At 35, Doug Finke was putting in 70-hour work weeks as a manager at a local Peterbilt dealership in Fargo, N.D. With a wife and two kids at home, Finke worked hard to establish a career, but bonuses continually decreased and promotions fell short of expectations.
When Finke unexpectedly found himself without a job, he decided […]
AZCentral.com:
What business offers: Mobil shaved-ice kiosk that comes to you, wherever your event is. Festivals, carnivals, school events (football games, track meets, wrestling tournaments, dances, carwashes, booster events, fundraisers, band events). We are much better than an old-fashioned crunchy-ice snow cone. This is like eating fluffy “snow.” We also can become sort of like a […]
NYDailyNews.com:
The first time Kathy Moskal launched a business, she created a whole new product category.
Her company, Hue, manufactured hip alternatives to hosiery - colored tights, and knee-highs to wear with pants - and garmentos coined the term “fashion legwear.” The company’s sales reached $40 million, and Moskal made a bundle when she and a co-owner […]
SLTrib.com:
Jessica Yescas adheres to the belief that “success often comes to those who have the aptitude to see way down the road.”
That philosophy compelled Yescas and husband Enrique to each work two jobs for years until they saved enough money to buy the Pier 49 Pizza franchise in Murray. And it has enabled her […]
Entrepreneur.com:
Shirley Kuhnley was 69 years old three years ago when she graduated from a nine-month culinary arts class in Portland, Oregon’s largest city. Then she worked a year at another bakery, and she took a year to establish her business, refurbish her location, and open up. According to the story in the paper, Shirley said:
“You […]
Weekend.Entrepreneur.com:
Despite the fact that the chocolate business is seasonal, Seattle Chocolates has an annual income of $12-15 million. According to the company’s owner, Jean Thompson, “In the world of chocolate, women are the influencers, adopters and frequent buyers. It’s advantageous to be a woman running the company in an industry like this because you completely […]
RockyMountTelegram.com:
Entrepreneur Tommy Southerland is bringing fresh coffee beans from growers worldwide to be brewed for the cups of coffee lovers.Originally from Wilmington, Southerland has lived in Rocky Mount for 35 years. He opened his business in April and presented his products during the opening day of The Farmers Market.
“The reception was very good,” Southerland said. […]
LiverPoolDailyPost:
An organic baby food firm is proving it has the recipe for success after scooping a £50,000 prize from millionaire Liverpool businessman Steve Morgan.
Chester firm So Baby won the Best New Business title at the Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards last night.
So Baby makes hand-made frozen organic baby meals for babies from 6 months to two years […]
Entrepreneur:
“Shelly Hwang, owns an all-natural, nonfat frozen yogurt shop called Pinkberry in West Hollywood, California.
The yogurt, which took a year to perfect, is all-natural, nonfat and served in a setting that features high-end Italian furniture, Scandinavian light fixtures and hip European music. Known to customers as “Crackberry,” Pinkberry offers an experience so addictive that customers–up to […]
Fast Casual:
“If not for a wrong turn, Charley’s Grilled Subs might not exist.
Charley’s founder, Charley Shin, was introduced to the Philly cheesesteak during a family vacation to New York while Shin was a high school student in Columbus, Ohio. During the trip, the family took a wrong turn and ended up in Philadelphia.
“I saw a little […]
DurhamRegion:
“Driven by the desire to provide nutritious food for babies, Whitby-based entrepreneur Tanya Moore is taking her business to a new level.
Healthy Sprouts, a line of organic baby food launched by Ms. Moore in late 2004, will now be available in mainstream grocery stores — such as A and P and Dominion — throughout Ontario […]
Enquirer.com
“Hurricane Katrina may have displaced tens of thousands of Americans and ripped at the fabric of New Orleans, but for Latoya Foster-Filson, it was a new beginning.
The former Crescent City resident was inspired to open a Springdale eatery that serves food from that historic American city.
Her restaurant, New Orleans To Go, opened in October, in […]
