‘Why I Left My Customer Service Job at Globacom to Start a Catering Outfit’

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CEO, ‘U-Don-Chop Catering Outfit’, Genevieve Fadeh,

What a fresh graduate in Nigeria will consider a lucrative and satisfying job at Globacom, a major telecommunication company in Nigeria was what Genevieve Tambari Fadeh dumped to start ‘U-Don-Chop Catering Outfit’, a catering business that has grown into a household name in the industrial kitchen sector in the country.

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At Globacom, Genevieve worked at the Customer Service Department after her graduation at Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, where she studied Mass Communication with Second Class Degree (Upper Division).

Her interest of becoming a chef was ignited at a tender while watching her mother closely when cooking in the kitchen.

“Cooking is something I have always loved. I used to watch my mum do it a lot. I just realized that I like to make people happy and if people get happy from eating my food, I’m just excited,” Fadeh said.

According to her, she said she had enrolled at a culinary and a safety school to acquire certification and expertise that will enhance her value in the business.

“So, I am certificated in both health and safety. And because people eat with their eyes first before they actually taste a portion of food, I also went to study food photography to enable me to take good pictures of foods I make and showcase them to prospective clients”, she enthused.

Today, Genevieve caters for corporates, weddings, birthdays and other big events in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. She also provides food in bowls for clients, strictly on order and has done that for some clients even outside the shores of Nigeria.

“I do any kind of food. I was born in Rivers State by birth but my origin does not limit the kind of foods that I make. So, I can make any kind of foods from efon soup to affang, oha, ewedu, ogbono and other local cuisines. I also prepare Ghanaian, South African and other African dishes.”

She revealed that apart from her passion for the business, the love for food, which she observed among Lagos residents, inspired her to throw away her lucrative job for it.

On how she got her first big event, she explained that she catered for and it was was challenging. “It was a challenge because I catered for almost 300 people, and in-as-much I have some staff, there is a difference when you cook for maybe five to 10 people and when you cook for about 300 people”

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According to her, she said that was the real test of the business because it might either over-spice or under-spice and that would attract bashings from not only your client, but also almost everybody that would taste the food.

“But I got everything right; the food was really nice. So, from there I started getting referrals,” she said.

After she has started the business, Genevieve could confidently say that her life has improved a great deal since she started the business, but it has not been entirely rosy.

Her words: “Anybody that tells you that being an entrepreneur is easy is not telling you the truth. You would encounter so many challenges. So, it hasn’t been easy, but God has been really good to me. So far, I am proud of the height I have attained. I have worked with a lot of clients and they all know that I don’t play with my business at all”, she explained.

 

 

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