Chef Ebony Bowman is the founder of Flavor Atlanta, and has parlayed her lifelong love of cooking into a successful Georgia-based small business offering personal chef services, catering, catering and catering. Both of Ebony’s grandparents did a lot of cooking and baking, and one was a professional caterer. Ebony started helping them in the kitchen at the age of five. She studied at the Art Institute of Atlanta and has over 20 years of experience in the culinary and hospitality industries. For more information about her business go to flavoratlanta.com.
In this episode, I talk to Chef Ebony Bowman about how she single-handedly grew her business into a full-service food service. We discuss how she grew her business, used outsourcing, focused on what she was best at, and reduced overhead (and debt) while building her business.
“Just letting those who can do those things and do what they’re good at and let me do what I can do and what I’m good at makes it more peaceful and better.” – Ebony Bowman
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This week on the SmallBizChat podcast:
- Keep your head a little when you start.
- Take your time to build smart.
- Reuse resources and limit your services to avoid waste and redundancy.
- Outsource the things you don’t want to do yourself.
- A standout from the competition.
- Focus on your strengths.
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