Yolanda Nomoyi and Mathapelo Montsho’s catering company is proving that corporate South Africa has a genuine appetite for home-cooked food served with soul.
THEY WERE TWO PEOPLE leading completely different lives until that one day at a social gathering when food brought them together.
Mathapelo Montsho and Yolanda Nomoyi met through a mutual friend and they both had common culinary passions.
Soon, they together put their skills, contacts and experience to good use, to found Why Cook, a catering company, in 2015, with one founder specializing in meat and the other in vegetarian food, preparing dishes from their homekitchens for their respective clients.
Business picked up and soon, they were cooking together for big corporates, from Montsho’s single garage at her residence in Midrand in north Johannesburg.
Success was brewing for Why Cook, and from the garage, the eager entrepreneurs moved the business into the house and into a neighbor’s vacant garage they used as a storage facility.
The co-founders had no formal culinary background and never aspired to be chefs but embraced the fact that people needed good, healthy homecooked food, which was their specialty.
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