meet chef mo
Chef, Restaurateur, Consultant & Mentor
From a young age, Monique "Chef Mo" Williams embraced the creativity of cooking. Inspired and encouraged by her maternal grandmother, Laura Stepter, she experimented with flavors, using fresh ingredients from her family’s garden. At age twelve, she wrote her first business plan for opening her own restaurant. Although her working life originally took a very different trajectory into the world of clinical research, the allure of cooking and baking never left her. When she traveled for work, she would make cookies and cakes as a stress reliever. She posted her creations on Facebook and people began to request them for purchase. In 2012, she opened Pat-A-Cake's Bake Shop named after a childhood nursery rhyme song to her as a child by her grandmother. Laura’s Kitchen named after her grandmother, with a Southern-cooking-style menu was her next successful venture located in Bartlett, TN. Laura's Kitchen is still going strong as a catering and an operating ghost kitchen providing home delivery entree options. The menu has the best of Laura's Kitchen along with the baked goods of Pat-A-Cake's Bake Shop. Chef Mo is also co-owner of Laura's Kitchen food truck as well as a founding co-owner of T.R.A.P Fusion Restuarant. A fusion of different cuisines based on healthier-style foods like seafood, fresh vegetables, brown rice, and lean proteins. It’s still going strong
with two locations in Whitehaven and Cordova. Before COVID hit, she wrote the business plan for Biscuits and Jams, which is now a successful Breakfast, Lunch, & Brunch boutique restaurant in Bartlett, TN. She is currently developing a plant-based and pescatarian restaurant with her business associates.
Chef Mo has always had a desire to empower women to succeed in business as well as provide a knowledge network for womenpreneurs. She founded Boss Chick Think Tank in 2018 and has provided free counseling, group meet-ups, and mentorship to numerous women business owners. She also serves as a hired consultant for numerous start-up & existing restaurants and businesses in the Mid-south area.
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Recipes
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