🌟 Rotary Club of Chinatown is hosting a "Women in Entrepreneurship - Starting up a Business Successfully Workshop"!
🔍 Topics:
1️⃣ Why Restaurant
2️⃣ Skill Set Required
3️⃣ Challenges & Rewards
4️⃣ Financial Requirements
5️⃣ Do’s and Don’ts
📅 Date: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
⏰ Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
📍 Location: Hop Lee Restaurant, 16 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013
💰 Fee: $35/person (Includes a full dinner)
📧 RSVP: email Chinatownrotary@gmail.com
🎙️ Speaker: Erika Chou
Erika Chou combines her love of the restaurant industry with her background in fine arts, interior design, and branding. She brings her many talents to bear as an owner and operator after first gaining experience in the fashion industry, before working her way up the ranks of Andre Balazs’ Standard Grill and the Gotham City Hospitality Group. In 2012, she embarked on her own with the debut of Yunnan Kitchen, one of the first regional Chinese restaurants in NYC. Three years later, her sophomore project opened in the World Trade Center after which she founded Rivers and Hills Hospitality Group. Today, the group, deemed “a hit maker” by Eater, includes concepts like powerhouse Wayla, James Beard Nominee Kimika, along with Wan Wan, JIA, Bronson’s Burgers, and Lotus + Cleaver.
Along the way, Erika has been recognized as a leading female entrepreneur in the Food & Beverages industry by Cherry Bombe, The New York Times, and listed in the Hospitality News Watchlist of 15. A particularly notable feature was being named one of three pioneers of Chinese cuisine in America with a front-page feature by the New York Times. Her projects have been spotlighted in The New Yorker, Grubhub, Eater, Vogue, Louis Vuitton City Guide, The Infatuation, Bon Appetit, James Beard Foundation, and more.
In the past few years, Erika has pivoted by going back to her design roots and became a partner at the interior design firm, Bespoke Only. She has since then left to focus on her family and is very excited for what’s to come.
