Black Women Working in the Food Industry Helping You Eat Well

Black Women Founders in the Food Industry Watch List

Food is life and there are countless ways to enjoy it.

The Black women in the food industry listed below are making sure that Black owned restaurants are represented, that your sweet tooth is satisfied, that your morning Joe is from Kenya, and even a healthy snack for the menopausal!

Julie Gordon White

Founder and CEO of Bossa Bars

Created with a menopausal female’s health, weight control, and self-care in mind, Bossa Bars are delicious plant-based and perfectly sized mini-meals or snacks.

Bossa Bars are great-tasting plant-based bars with all-natural ingredients, no fillers or artificial sweeteners, and a great source of fiber. Enjoy daily with morning coffee, post-workout for an afternoon boost, or with a well-deserved evening glass of wine!

The Bossa Bars menopausal team of experts also provides a supportive community with resources and events to help women navigate the menopause years with confidence and ease to #menolikeaboss!

Bossa Bars are available now for online orders at bossabars.com in 12 or 24 packs as well as subscriptions.

Cynthia Daniels

Founder of Memphis Black Restaurant Week

Memphis Black Restaurant Week (MBRW) was founded by Cynthia Daniels & Co. in 2016 after seeing a need to bolster support for Black and minority-owned businesses in the Bluff City.

MBRW offers exposure and the opportunity to support 11 Black owned restaurants, enjoying their unique atmosphere and most bragged about menus.

MBRW is a unique exposure and engaging opportunity to empower eleven black-owned restaurants, while also introducing a new dining experience for Memphis natives and tourists.

Mignon Francois

A trip into the home of The Cupcake Collection is an invitation into the lives of the Francois family. We do our best to welcome all our customers like guests. After all, our bakery is housed right inside the family living room.

People are often surprised when I tell them that baking was never my forte. A taste of our baked from scratch, original recipe cupcakes leaves them more confused when I say that even baking out of a box was an insurmountable challenge for me prior to creating this venture.

In fact, it was the passion of my daughters, Brittany and Lauren, then ages 11 and 16. Now, for 10 years, I have enjoyed creating cupcakes together with my family locally and nationally.

Featured daily from my kitchen are the sweet treats we rise early to prepare with you in mind, exactly the way our family has come to love them. That’s also the reason we approach them the way we do. Because I’d never dream of offering my personal guest something less than I’d offer to family, I promise to always make yours free from lard and shortening, and gluten or dairy if you need that too.

At The Cupcake Collection, we are not trying to reinvent the wheel. We are just trying to do classic things well. Our cupcakes taste homemade because they are homemade, right in the space where I raised my family.

Carmen Alexis, Taylor Booker & Tylor Booker

Founders of Nutri-Vending, LLC

We are a vending machine company called Nutri-Vending, LLC.

Our Motto is “Where Health Meets Taste”. We specialize in improving your snack and vending experience!

They are combo machines that offer both snacks and drinks in one machine. No need to go anywhere else when you get hungry on the job!

We have several vending machines all over the Metro-Atlanta area and are steadily growing!

Margaret Nyamumbo

Kahawa 1893 coffee, a sustainable coffee brand that brings the rich aromatic flavors of Kenya (which produces some of the most abundant and distinctive coffee on earth!) to their doorstep (or yours!).

Kahawa 1893 coffee beans are grown and harvested in Kenya and roasted fresh in California by a third-generation female Kenyan coffee farmer. Kahawa 1893 is available in whole beans, ground, and convenient, eco-friendly single-serve coffee packs— coffee bags that steep within 5 minutes!

Offered in a variety of blends and roasts, including Kenyan Peaberry, Serengeti Blend, Ethiopian, Safari, 1893 Espresso, Decaf, Single-Serve Coffee Packs, Cold Brew, and more.

As a Black female-owned business, Kahawa 1893 supports the hardworking Kenyan female coffee farmers through its online “customer tipping” program, allowing 100% of proceeds to go directly to the female coffee producers that Kahawa 1893 works with.