07/02/2022
For today's episode, I am very excited to interview Kristina Gutierrez - Local Woman Preneur and Co-owner and Managing partner of Fresh Cut Foods LLC, a catering company she founded with her Executive Chef best friend Sheena. They are a local home grown food company who is taking the Inland Empire by storm with their new brand and product GrabNGo Cuisines that offers our busy local community access to a healthier and convenient meal prepared and cooked with ingredients sourced responsibly and locally.
About Fresh Cut Catering and Grab and Co Cuisine
https://freshcuteats.com
Founded in 2014 by two best friends, Fresh Cut Catering was created out of need for wanting to offer healthier cuisines for your everyday meals by working with local growers and bakeries to incorporate healthier alternative ingredients such as: leaner meats, fresher vegetables, whole wheat, and low sodium products.
Located in Chino, CA, Kristina and Sheena started catering to the local community. Catering to small events such as: birthdays, anniversaries and baby showers. As their passion grew stronger and stronger and their desire to grow their company, Kristina and Sheena quit their corporate jobs to pursuit catering full-time in 2017. Having no income coming in and a company eager for growth and potential, Kristina and Sheena starting marketing to corporate companies, dealerships, banquet halls, event centers, and growing their followers on social media. Soon after, their smaller birthday parties and anniversaries turned into large corporate events, quinceneras and weddings of 300-400 guests. Which consisted of catering in the Greater Los Angeles County, Orange County and the Inland Empire areas. However, as the story goes, in 2020 catering came to a complete halt in which they had to find a way to pivot. Staying resilient, hopeful, and determined to not let their company fade away, they started offering Grab & Go cuisines to the local community and to their previous corporate clients.
As their desire for growth persists, Kristina and Sheena continue to make it their mission to provide healthy, gourmet, high-end cuisines to clients who are looking for healthier options for their corporate, wedding, banquet, special-event, and on-the-go meals. Their desire is to become one of the largest caterer’s in Southern California and to offer their Grab & Go cuisines in retail, arenas and airport locations throughout the world.
