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Let’s Chow Fellow Derek Suhre of Calavera Coffee Interviewed at Red White & Boca Veterans Day Celebration
The event featured speakers, live music, a car and motorcycle show and food trucks. The Let's Chow food truck operated by Calavera Coffee was one of the businesses offering free items to veterans.
"It's a small piece, it’s very, very small compared to what they did obviously but we are all trying to contribute as best we can,” said Calavera Coffee founder and veteran Derek Suhre.
Derek Suhre, operator of Calavera Coffee on the Let’s Chow Truck in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Let’s Chow founder Jordan Foley & Fellows Luis and Olivia Surla featured in Insider Business
A successful food truck working with Let's Chow is San Diego's Joselle's Kitchen, run by Luis Surla, a combat-disabled veteran, and his wife, Olivia. They serve up authentic Filipino food, such as their popular homemade lumpia, using recipes from Olivia Surla's mom.
The Surlas harness technology, including collective cloud-based software, apps, and hardware to smoothen their processes and elevate their business. Luis Surla said that Toast, in particular, "improves order accuracy and enhances service speed." For example, restaurant-grade hardware allows the line cook at the griddle to see orders on a second screen. The order disappears upon delivery, making order-tracking easier in fast-paced environments.
Georgetown Magazine, Spring 2022: Serving up support for veterans
In 2019, Jordan Foley (L’21) was studying at Georgetown Law when he received devastating news: a friend and fellow Navy veteran had died by suicide while struggling with debts as he launched his startup business.
“After looking into it, I asked, why weren’t there resources available for him? Did he not have support? How can we reduce those startup fail rates?” he says. “I knew there were many nonprofits helping veterans start businesses, but I wanted to help them longterm. I wanted to honor my friend.”
Jordan Foley (L’21) founded ChowCorp, a nonprofit that helps veterans become food truck or restaurant owners, in 2020.
Photo: Charlie Magovern
Let’s Chow takes 1st Place Street Shares Business Shares Event hosted by Sam Adams
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you, thank you, thank you!
With your support, Chow was able to able to take away the first place prize from the Street Shares Business Shares and Coaching Event hosted by Sam Adams, which won our non-profit organization $15,000.
This money will be used to continue our mission of helping Veterans who have given our country so much of their time, find their passion in the culinary arts.
Let’s Chow awarded $5,000 grant from Nav
Chow takes home $5,000 in grant money from Nav, a leader in financial business apps that aims to “reduce the death rate of small businesses.”
Let’s Chow wins $15,000!
The Shore Hatchery, a bi-annual Mid-Atlantic business competition, assists entrepreneurs in creating new businesses and jobs in the region with the goal of reward organizations for their entrepreneurial efforts and positive impact in regional employment.
2nd Place in B’More Bold Business Conference
Chow is happy to announce our winning of 2nd place and $2,000 in the B’More Bold, Business Conference for Entrepreneurs & Innovators.
With this success comes a free business certificate program for one of our Fellows!
Chow is “Saving the world, one idea at a time.”
- The Capital Gazette
“As a submarine officer, Foley said connecting with people became hard in the six years he was constantly moving around the country.
When he moved back to Annapolis with his wife and two daughters, Foley said he found his love for cooking and realized it was a shared passion in the military.
In January, Chow got its non-profit status and began training veterans to cook for homeless people each month at a kitchen in Cheverly…”
Chow wins National Grant through Nav, Inc.!
Chow honored with national recognition through the Nav Small Business Grant competition. Chow is also the first nonprofit to ever be awarded money in this competition.
Rotary Club of Annapolis raises over $40,000 for Let’s Chow at Black Tie & Diamonds Gala
Let’s Chow is honored to have been chosen as the beneficiary of the Rotary Club of Annapolis’ annual Black Tie & Diamonds Gala in June 2022.
Anne Arundel Community College Big Idea Champions
Chow won the Anne Arundel Community College Big Idea 1st Place Prize for most viable business pitch and the Community Prize for the best social venture.
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Rocket Pitch Champs!
Chow came in 1st place out of over 25 teams in the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Rocket Pitch Competition! We pitched our schoolhouse concept "Kitchen with a Mission" (KWM).
Entrepreneurship Challenge 3rd Place!
In Chow’s first ever pitch competition, we placed 3rd in the Georgetown University system!
