Fake it ‘til you make it!” then Ellen Bennett’s story is for you.Before Bennet became the owner of the multimillion-dollar company, Hedley & Bennett, she worked as a line chef at Bäco Mercat, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Los Angeles.
She was driven, yes, but she couldn’t have predicted what the future had in store.One day at work, the head chef mentioned to a then 24-year-old Bennett that he was ordering a new batch of aprons.
The thought of working another shift in the “cheap, shitty, scratchy” aprons—more reminiscent of a hospital gown than the uniform of —pushed Bennett over the edge.
The average person in this situation would’ve given a simple, yes or no. Not Bennett. “Chef, I have an apron company!” she blurted out.
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