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of entry to midlevel positions in the hospitality industry are women
When it comes to female executives or restaurant ownership, numbers plummet
7% overall women restaurant owners and chefs
2% Latina and restaurant owns
1% black women restaurant owners
MAPP is dedicated to transforming the landscape of the hospitality and culinary industries into an inclusive and thriving community, where every woman can reach their full potential.
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MAPP 2023 Miami Conference Recording
To access the MAPP annual conference streaming link with all panels workshops and keynote convos, become a CHANGEMAKER member and access them for free!
MAPP 2022 Restaurant Reset Conference Recording
To access the MAPP annual conference streaming link with all panels workshops and keynote convos, become a CHANGEMAKER member and access them for free!
Restaurant Survival Toolkit
an empowering Virtual Speaker Series with celebrity chefs and industry titans providing business tools and resources for women in hospitality to make their best years yet! You’ll hear from incredible guests like: Celebrity Chefs Tanya Holland and Elizabeth Falkner, social media phenom Maria Nguyen, author Yasmin Khan and leading industry experts on how to expand revenue streams so you can thrive!
How to grow your brand beyond a brick and mortar
Chef Elizabeth Falkner
Featured chef on Food Network, Bravo TV’s Top Chef, James Beard Award nominee, past president of Women Chefs & Restaurateurs
Multi-award-winning Chef, Author, and Artist, has used her culinary training and background to merge her passion for art, travel & storytelling. Hear how to take your brand to astronomical levels from a former restaurateur who created entrepreneurial success with her art, creativity, and advocacy.
Take what you've built and learn how to keep it growing through your brand and today's new landscape including ghost kitchens
How to create a must-hear podcast
Chef Tanya Holland
Featured chef on Food Network, Bravo TV’s Top Chef, HBO’s Selena + Chef (with Selena Gomez), Food & Wine Magazine, Michelin Guide, Oprah Winfrey Network TV (OWN TV).
Tanya Holland is the Executive Chef/Owner of the internationally renowned and beloved Brown Sugar Kitchen restaurant, located in Oakland, CA.
The author of The Brown Sugar Kitchen Cookbook and New Soul Cooking, Holland competed on the 15th season of Top Chef on Bravo, appears on the new HBO Max show Selena + Chef featuring Selena Gomez and is the host of OWN’s Tanya’s Kitchen Table. In 2020, Holland launched “Tanya’s Table” podcast with MuddHouse Media. She is on the Board of Trustees for the James Beard Foundation, and Brown Sugar Kitchen has received multiple Michelin Bib Gourmand awards.
How to publish your first cookbook
Yasmin Khan & Andrew Friedman
Yasmin Khan, is a best-selling and award-winning food and travel writer, broadcaster, and human rights campaigner based in London. Her publications The Saffron Tales, Ripe Figs, and Zaitoun - was named one of the best cookbooks of the year by The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and the BBC Food Programme.
Andrew Friedman is the author of Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits, and Wanderers Created a New American Profession, and of Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Bocuse d’Or, the World’s Most Prestigious Cooking Competition. He also co-edited the popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home, and has collaborated on more than 25 cookbooks, memoirs, and other projects with some of America’s finest and most well-known chefs. He hosts and produces the popular podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs.
How to Grow Your Brand & Social Media
Maria Nguyen & Chef Adrianne Calvo
Maria Nguyen is the founder & CEO of social media culinary platform @theartofplating, with 1 million followers on Instagram and creator of @itsonthepass podcast. When the former art director is not traveling the world in search of the next beautiful plate, Maria Nguyen is in Los Angeles honing in on the subject of plating and pushing the conversation forward to inspire creativity.
Chef Adrianne Calvo is an acclaimed chef with 700K+ followers on Instagram, author of 6 cookbooks, television personality, and restaurateur who opened her namesake Restaurant Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar when she was 22 years old. Calvo can be found taping her weekly local NBC segment or at various events supporting her “Make it Count Foundation” that she started to help inspire young people to do their best.
Watch Tiffany Derry’s Mentorship Circle
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Chef/Owner and Co-Founder of T2D Concepts and Tiffany Derry Concepts
Celebrity Chef Tiffany Derry, the owner of Roots Chicken Shak & Bravo Top Chef Alumni Judge, gives advice and chats openly with 7 chefs, winners of our MAPP Giveaway with our partners Just Call Me Chef, The Women's Hospitality Initiative, and I'll Have What She's Having. Listen in!