With a degree in fine arts but a passion for food, Kathy Mangham has successfully developed an open-ended business model catered to what she does best: gourmet food, made fresh from scratch every day.
As Business Report details in its new Entrepreneur feature on Mangham, it was after selling her 23-year-old business—The Silver Spoon in Bocage Village—in 2008 that she opened boutique catering company Gourmet Girls in 2010 with a different idea in mind.
“I kind of get to do my thing,” Mangham says. “I spend the day doing what I want—what I enjoy doing, which is cooking and baking and exploring that.”
Her kitchen space, while small, handles an enormous amount of volume.
“I’m not working with a major operation, but I think that is also why things are under the quality control that they are,” Mangham says. “I am pretty much touching everything that comes out of there.”
Mangham says what sets her business apart is her scratch-made model with ever-changing items that mirror her inspirations from other recipes or new trends in her craft.
“I am not mass producing anything.” Mangham says. “It is as close as you’ll get to something homemade.”
Mangham says her next goal is to develop a lunch menu with made-to-order to-go items sold from her kitchen door.
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