FSR August 2023

Chefs & Ingredients

CULINARY INSPIRATION AND STORIES FROM INDUSTRY TRAILBLAZERS MENTIONED IN THIS SECTION GIBSONS RESTAURANT GROUP • • •

JACOBS & CO. • •

• INA’S KITCHEN

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Chicago’s ‘Breakfast Queen ’

INA PINKNEY TRANSFORMED FROM SOMEONE WHO HAD NEVER SEPARATED AN EGG WHITE BEFORE TO BUILDING A BREAKFAST EMPIRE IN THE WINDY CITY. AT 80 YEARS OLD, SHE’S NOW RECOUNTING THE LESSONS LEARNED ALONG THE WAY.

ADOBE STOCK

WHILE GROWING UP in the 1940s and early ‘50s, Ina Pinkney can’t recall seeing any examples of women in the media who were entrepreneurs or who owned their own businesses, so the thought of opening her own business didn’t cross her mind until the ‘80s. From serving as a manager at furniture and toy show rooms to working customer service at Revlon, Pinkney had 21 jobs in her life, and was fired from 19 of them. “Now, I was a hell of a good interview, wasn’t I?

BY CALLIE EVERGREEN At 80 years young, Ina Pinkney shares the secret ingredients to her success.

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