Biz

Our First Major Setback

by phil November 6, 2012 Biz

A picture of our phone bank earlier this year It has been a while since I talked about our Abidjan lunch delivery biz (last post on it is here). When I wrote the last update, we were going through 25kg of potatoes a day and delivering 100 plates of food every afternoon. In the past [...]

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25 Kg of Potatoes a Day

by phil August 15, 2012 Biz

6:30 AM – Starting the work day at the Toits Rouges Allocodrome We started this lunch delivery/catering business in January. We had no employees, just the three partners – me and my two former couchsurfing hosts, Faty and David – and Faty’s neighbor Didy. Our maisonette was unfinished and we didn’t yet have our space [...]

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New Growth: Scaling Up our Abidjan Restaurant and Catering Biz

by phil June 19, 2012 Biz

Restaurant and catering biz? If you want to get caught up, see these posts: 1. What it’s like to Start a Restaurant and Catering Business in Abidjan 2. Early Successes and Failures of Running a Business in Abidjan 3. Our Fight for Power and a Look at the Informal Electricity Economy in Abidjan 4. Kedjenou: [...]

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Kedjenou: an Ivorian dish that we serve at our restaurant

by phil May 24, 2012 Biz

If you come to our restaurant in the Allocodrome of the Toits Rouges quarter in the Yopougon neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, you can order this dish. Best wait a couple of weeks, though, as kedjenou is an evening dish and right now we are strictly a lunch operation. Kedjenou is typically a dish shared [...]

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Our Fight for Power and a Look at the Informal Electricity Economy in Abidjan

by phil May 2, 2012 Biz

An “illegal distribution of power” in Yopougon, Abidjan. Quick update: I was supposed to fly to Mali on Monday. The flight was canceled due to a cloud of martian-like dust in Bamako. It would have been the second time I flew into Bamako during a coup, or in this case, a counter-coup attempt. My flight [...]

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Early Successes and Failures of Running a Business in Abidjan

by phil April 23, 2012 Biz

This picture was taken one month ago. See the end of the post for what the maisonette/store house/office looks like now We officially launched our business a couple of months ago, but it was last week that we started operating at capacity (see this post for the early early stages). Up until that point, we [...]

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