Business
Profile: Entrepreneurs Katrina Kelly and Shari Griffith
Katrina Kelly (left) and Shari Griffith (Right).PHOTO/Courtesy Madame Noire
In 2001, Shari Griffith and Katrina Kelly were seniors in high school when Kelly suggested that they enter their school’s annual business plan competition. They both loved to cook and would often prepare meals together with each of them making a signature dish: Griffith always made her infamous chicken wings and Kelly mastered the desert course with her cake baking skills. It was during one of these dinners that the girls jokingly decided to combine their skills in the kitchen into a business plan for a catering company that combined their best recipes.
And although it all started out as a joke, they won the business plan competition and soon realized that they their idea might be a food pairing made in heaven. Soon after, they used their winnings from the competition to launch their home-based catering company, Cake N Wings.
