My Entrepreneurship Story

Perhaps the first time I was truly exposed to an entrepreneurial mindset was when I was a kid and realized my dad wasn't just a chef anymore, but he was also an entrepreneur. My father is a chef, he has cooked for 30 some odd years. Before I was born , he started his own culinary business, focusing mainly on culinary consulting and the creation of new products to be put into restaurants and grocery stores world wide (ex. Easy mac, lava cakes, sauces, oatmeal). However this is not what struck me by surprise. It was not his main business or his restaurant that made me realize my father was an entrepreneur. It was my Dad's side project, he had invented a system that predicts food trends 5, 10, and 15 years from now. It's his true passion to make his project a success. It's been proven to work, with Nestle leasing it from my father for a few years (of course they tried to figure out how it works, to no avail), he has a patent for it and truly wants to make it work out. It was then I had an epiphany, I had always known I wanted to be self-employed, that much runs in the family. However it was then I realized I wanted to take on the daunting task of becoming an entrepreneur.