How Did You Become a Chef?

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In the early 19 eighties, aron and rotna have just sold their health food store life stream. But they're still running a restaurant in the back of the store called woodlands. Tete was a big restaurant, a hundred and 20 seatswell, and basically it served a couple of million meals out of there. This place was jammed for lunches and for dinners, and always making money. In the meantime, i got kind of bored of being in the restaurant business, so i started manufacturing our first product - manna bread. It was a sprouted, organic loaf, like ezekiel bread.

Starting a business with your spouse can either bring you closer together or tear you apart. For Arran and Ratana Stephens, their business has lasted for nearly 40 years, and their marriage has thrived for much longer. As business partners, they seem perfectly matched: he’s the hard-charging visionary, she’s the practical, business-minded one who sometimes has to talk him out of a bad decision. But in 1985, Arran made a very smart move: seeing how organic food was starting to take off, he mixed up his first batch of Manna bread in a bathtub and started selling it, eventually expanding to national distribution. From there, he and Ratana pivoted to breakfast cereal, initially purchasing a factory that couldn’t make a single cornflake. Today, Nature’s Path sells organic cereals, tortilla chips and other snacks in more than 50 countries around the world.

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