Founder of Black-Owned Food Service Business Wins $17 Million Contract With Boston Public Schools
A Black-owned food service business has landed a $17 million contract with Boston Public Schools....
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We’re Sick to Our Stomachs Over Food Delivery Apps
Who doesn’t love the ease of ordering takeout with a few taps after a hard day’s work? However, the food delivery startup craze is starting...
Smart Choice
The Harlem-based business cooks from scratch; packages; and delivers breakfast, lunch, and snacks to public, private, and charter schools. But the company avoids processed foods,...
UBR Spotlight: Splice Kitchen’s Tonya Ojuluwayo Cooks Up Success
This week on The Urban Business Roundtable: Tonya Ojuluwayo, founder of Splice Kitchen, one of Chicago's first shared-use kitchens for food-service entrepreneurs. Also: Core Connection...
Feast on This
Americans spent more than $1.6 trillion on food last year. That translates into millions of opportunities for the people who grow, produce, prepare, and sell...
UBR Spotlight: Food Service Mogul Warren Thompson
This week on The Urban Business Roundtable: Warren Thompson, the president and chairman of Thompson Hospitality Corp., the nation's largest black-owned food and facilities management...
Sizzling Returns
Thompson hospitality was in crisis mode. Founded a few months earlier in 1992 when CEO Warren M. Thompson negotiated a leveraged buyout of 31 Big...
2010 BE 100s Industrial/Service Company of The Year
Led by CEO Warren Thompson, Thompson Hospitality Corp. has delivered double-digit revenue growth each year since its founding in 1992, earning the Herndon, Va-based food...