Now valued at $100 million, #SluttyVegan currently has five locations in #Atlanta, with plans to move into #Brooklyn and Baltimore in the future. Founder Pinky Cole says her vision is to build the brand into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
The brand is only four years old!
Slutty Vegan is now valued at $100 million after its founder Pinky Cole raised $25 million in Series A funding, Forbes reports.
Aisha “Pinky” Cole opened her first restaurant, Pinky’s Jamaican and American restaurant, in Harlem in 2014. A grease fire would cause her to lose everything, the budding entrepreneur switching gears to take a job as a casting director in Los Angeles, eventually traveling to Atlanta to continue in her role. In 2018, she would take another stab at the restaurant business, coming up with the idea for Slutty Vegan, quickly launching the plant-based burger joint out of a shared kitchen space.
“The next thing I know, there’s about 300 people standing outside, trying to pick up their orders,” Cole recalls.
Business took off and Cole quickly opened up a food truck before opening her first brick and mortar location in 2019, creating a brand that would wow customers and keep them coming back.
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