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Restaurant Entrepreneurship: The Real Story

Food Sol’s special guest to Community Table this week at Babson was Chef Nookie Postal who came to tell Babson food entrepreneurs of all kinds about the restaurant business. A longtime Boston chef, Nookie helped Ana Sortun to open now famous Oleana in Cambridge.  He’s cooked at Chez Henri, Icarus, Casablanca and been Executive Chef…

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Moveable Feast: Food Sol’s Community Table grows in Boston

Food Sol’s first Community Table Boston last Thursday was a huge hit. For a conversation on entrepreneurial opportunities in Boston urban agriculture, folks turned out from Tufts, BU, Harvard Law School, Babson, Wellesley College, the Mayor’s Office, City Growers, and Shape Up Somerville to participate. Local marketer and farmers’ market maven Myrna Greenfield wrote about…

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Reviewing Babson Food Days; What Was Your Favorite Part?

For us at Food Sol, Babson Food Days (October 23-24) was two days of high-energy, high-octane, high-entrepreneurship.  That could never have been without you – the impeccable talent, passion, and fire in the belly of Babson. We’re entrepreneurs too, and as such, we must be relentlessly testing and talking to the market.  You are our…

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How Gail Simmons Came to Babson

Late last summer, as Food Sol was busily organizing 2nd annual Food Days, Babson Entrepreneur in Residence Andrew Zimmern copied us on an email to his buddy Gail Simmons. Gail lives in New York, but we had heard that she was coming to Boston to host an event downtown on October 23rd, the first of…

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Power Packed Recipe for Food Entrepreneurship at Babson

“That’s what all entrepreneurs need:  you need to open up the conversation, not be afraid to share your problems, so that you can overcome them.” – Pranav Chaudhry (’14) on the Quick Service Incubator When Gail Simmons kicked off her Residency at Babson in April, this celebration included a Quick Service Incubator. The Quick Service…

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A Farmers Market Where?

Last week, Food Sol road tripped to upstate New York to visit Farm Sanctuary.  (You can read more on that here, if you like.)  On the way home, we pulled into Lee Plaza, off the Mass Pike near Lee, MA to grab a sandwich and some gas. To our surprise, we found two farmers’ stands…

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Rising Junior Jack Barber Talks Food Truck Entrepreneurship

It was only last summer that Jack Barber opened his food truck Mainely Burgers with business partner Ben Berman. In April, they won Eater’s Best Burger in Maine. And last Wednesday, they became one of just five businesses honored at the annual Entreverge awards. (Entreverge recognizes local entrepreneurs whose businesses exhibit a scalable vision and…

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