Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tyrone is a very successful Engineer, Pastor; he is also a parent, a husband, and a very successful entrepreneur owner of Floyds restaurant III in Charlotte, NC.
Last week we had a very informal interview about his business and his life in general and here are some of the answers he gave me.

Tyrone how you started your company?
Tyrone explained to me about his family business, his father started Floyds I and II, everything started as a sandwich shop and grew from there, after college his dad wanted to help him out with his own restaurant that was when Floyds III started.

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While trying to find a place that have High quality pre-cooked meals I came across Maria, and was instantly hooked by her wonderful ability to cook.

Maria would you tell me a little bit how you started your company?
Sure, everything started when I was laid off from my former job, I needed some type of income, and unemployment alone did not help much, since English is not my first language I needed to do something that did not required to be very proficient in English, so I started cooking for friends and people I knew, I guess the word spread out and more people found out about my services and all started then.

Could you give me some examples to illustrate the challenge you faced in starting your company?
One of the biggest challenges was the language, not being able to speak English made things hard, also spreading the word around, since I did not have any capital for advertisement I was very dependent on word of mouth, and the high quality of my food, that way if my customers tried my food the first time they where hooked and came up for more.

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