Dominique Leach built her own business from scratch with talent, hard work and ambition — and it didn't come without its challenges.
Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost Photo: GAZ consulting+ Design, Getty Imagesin Chicago. A native Chicagoan, she worked at the famed restaurant Spiaggia and The Art Institute of Chicago before starting her own catering company, which became a food truck and later her own restaurant. Leach has appeared on The Food Network twice and last year she earned the title of “Best BBQ in Chicago” from “Good Morning America.
So when I started Lexington Betty’s Smokehouse, it was because of all of that. I was like, “I’m gonna think like a rapper.” And I would hear from interviews that a lot of rappers felt like they had to win over their community first. If you have the support of your community, then you can build off of that. So I said, “I’m gonna do what my culture loves; I’m gonna make the food my culture loves to eat, and then I’ll build off of it.” And that’s essentially what I did.
“I’m here to flourish on this platform so that I can then pull more Black female chefs up. I want to be an example to Black people in general, but specifically women.”I got the food truck in June of 2017, and it was set on fire a few months later. Just a little after 1 o’clock in the morning, my wife was in the living room watching TV when it happened. I was asleep, and I can remember faintly hearing her running toward me. And she couldn’t talk when she got in the room.
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