Gibran Baydoun grew up in Las Vegas as the only child of a single mother who worked multiple jobs. “Food, for us, was more of a process,” he says, recalling his mother making meat loaf on a Sunday and iterating the leftovers differently until Thursday. “We’d have it in a sandwich, as a main with salad or potatoes … that’s how we got through the week. We were eating to eat.”
But then he had a revelation. “I’d visit my extended family or friends’ houses, and I realised that some of the greatest moments of our lives happen over a table of food,” says the 33-year-old entrepreneur, “that there’s a huge difference between eating, and having or sharing a meal.”
That revelation became Baydoun’s resolution, and he has since dedicated