‘225 Dine’: Baton Rouge couple launching another dinner mix company

Ryan and Kristen Grizzaffi haven’t turned 30 yet, but they already own two national companies. As Ryan tells it, it’s a far cry from the bread truck and $500 with which they started.
Over the last couple of years, their first company, The Cajun Spoon, has undergone quite the evolution, 225 Dine reports.
It was first a food truck, then a catering business and now a nationwide dinner-mix company—complete with packaged mixes for classic Cajun dishes like jambalaya, gumbo, chicken and dumplings, and shrimp and grits.
Through it all, the husband-and-wife duo has stayed true to their southern Louisiana roots—his in Baton Rouge, hers across the river in Plaquemine—and stuck to Creole creations.
But with their latest endeavor, The Bamboo Chef, the Grizzaffis are trying their hand at Asian dinner mixes.
Mixes include the likes of fried rice and stir fry seasonings as well as tempura and potato frying flours. Products will be on the shelves at 2,000 Walmart locations starting in September, Ryan says.
Ryan and Kristen say their jump into the Asian market was inspired by what they saw as an open market space, a far cry from the increasingly crowded Cajun section at the grocery store.
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