Private chef service and culinary brand cooking meals for paying clients
Food & drink
Every conversation about the business this month, newest first, with its audio.
Grace Upon Plates is a culinary brand run by a private chef who started it after leaving a salaried kitchen job. The founder grows clients by converting social media followers into bookings and handles the business's marketing, buying and logistics herself.
“And so, yeah, I then became a private chef and I started my own culinary brand called Grace Upon Plates.”
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Winery run by young co-founders, making and selling wine
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Makes a low-calorie sparkling hard seltzer for South African drinkers
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Food & drink · Soweto
Manufactures and sells fruit-based beverages supplied to retail stores
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Funding: Started with R800 from the founders' savings
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