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Johan Engman Bet Three Years on Breakfast
A teenage dishwasher opened a café into the teeth of a recession, kept it alive with outside jobs, then dreamed up a breakfast republic in a Borneo rainstorm. The stubborn part was only the beginning.
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Lorena Cantarovici Put a Family Recipe on a Flight Path
She arrived in Denver with a banker’s instinct for systems and a cook’s memory of home. Fifteen years later, the empanada has carried her mother’s name from a garage kitchen to an airport gate.
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Chris Newcomb’s Second Act Began by Taking Down the Wall
The Newk’s co-founder turned an accidental restaurant job into a lifelong study of food, people, and the invisible machinery behind a good lunch.
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Christiana Luo Made Hot Pot Personal - Then Took It Across North America
Big Way Hot Pot grew by asking a precise question: what if a shared ritual worked one bowl at a time? Co-founder Christiana Luo turned customization into the menu, the message and the route across North America.
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