Meet Tiffany Askew | CEO of Glori Eats/ Vet Techinician

We had the good fortune of connecting with Tiffany Askew and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Tiffany, what was your thought process behind starting your own business?
I love Cooking! Growing up I watched my grandmother cook. She cooked every Sunday and it brought the whole family together. Cooking was her love Language, and it is now mine. She would always say the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach lol. Cooking has also brought my mother and I closer. We would play our music and get to work. My mother and I became the “go to cooks” in the family when my grandmother became too ill to cook anymore. Through-out the years, our family would compliment our cooking and recommend us opening up a restaurant. It wasn’t until the pandemic in 2020 where we really started to think we should consider starting a catering business. It became a passion so deep in my heart I couldn’t shake it. I came up with the name Glori but didn’t know what to use it for. Glory in the bible means “The manifesting of God’s presence”. My grandmother’s name is Gloria. I dropped the A in Gloria and changed the Y in Glory to an I. God put it in my heart to make that the name of the business. I added Eats and Glori Eats was birthed!

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
We are a mother Daughter Trio from Brooklyn, New York. We moved to Atlanta 11 years ago. We want to bring not only the culture of New York to Atlanta but also our nationalities. My mother is African American, Puerto Rican, and Indian. My dad is Trinidadian. We incorporate all ethnicities in our meals. We cook soul food, Hispanic foods, Caribbean food, and seafood because of our love for it. I’ve always heard “You’re talent is God’s gift to you, What you do with it is your gift back to God”. I honor God with every meal I cook. I want to make sure he is represented in our business because we wouldn’t be without him. I think that’s what set us apart.
The easiest part of starting Glori eats was the idea. Starting a business is hard work. It’s been hard balancing working full time as a vet technician at an animal hospital and dedicating my time to the business. I sacrificed shopping for the things I need when I got off of working 10 hours shifts, getting up at 3 in the morning to start cooking after being at work for those 10 hours, then spend my off day making deliveries to customers. Tired is an understatement but it’s worth it. The best way to get through it is to keep going no matter how hard it gets. Never make giving up an option. The lesson I learned is to never start a business without budgeting and coming up with a financial plan. In the beginning, I was spending $200-$300 dollars on food and supplies but only making $60 back. I did this for awhile thinking business would pick up, it did but I still wasn’t seeing any profit and I became in a finical hole. I took a few months off from the business and did some research, went to a few seminars for entrepreneurs, and reevaluated the business in whole including pricing. Don’t start anything without researching!
I had times when I doubted myself and didn’t think I could do it. I would wake up discouraged and thought ‘was I doing the right thing, Is this for me”. I Prayed my way through and God gave me the strength to keep going, I’m exited about the ideas God is giving me for Glori Eats and what he has in store for us next.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
When my family comes to visit from New York to Atlanta we usually go to a few places. I really like Fin and Feathers, especially their Midtown location. We’ll start our night off there. That’s a good “Pregame” spot. Frost bistro for bunch or Touche’ Lounge in Hapeville. We love going to be BQE because of course we’re from New York and the BQE (Brooklyn Queens Expressway) is an expressway there. If it’s the first Friday of the month I usually take my family to a party called “Deeper” It’s located at Westside Cultural Arts Center every first Friday and it’s always a vibe especially if you like 90’s R&B music. For good eats I like Louisiana Bistreaux in East Point. Their food and drinks are delicious.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
All credit goes to God. I even take the credit from myself to give to him. I wouldn’t have the talent, passion, or desire to cook if it wasn’t for him. I want my business to honor God and to serve his people. I would like to shoutout my business Partners, My mother, my second cook, who trusted me in the kitchen with her making big dinners for the holidays and for letting me see the fun in cooking, and my sister Andrea for helping me come up with ideas, taking pics and videos of meals we cooked for promotional purposes, but mostly for believing in me when I didn’t think I can do it. When I was unsure of the first steps to take she told me to just go for it, so I did. I appreciate you two!
To my family who gassed me up when tasting my meals lol. They encourage me to start this business. Shoutout to the Thomas/Small family. To my beloved grandmother, Thank you for inspiring me. Your love for cooking is still being shown through this business.
Last but not least, Everyone who has ever supported Glori Eats. Those who brought multiple dishes from us to support. Those who considered us for catering their events. We love you and hope to one day make you all proud. Thank you!

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Other: Email- Glorieats@gmail.com

Image Credits
Tiffany Askew, Andrea Small, Martha Thomas