Katrina Kelly (left) and Shari Griffith Co-founded Cake N Wings

In 2001, Shari Griffith and Katrina Kelly were seniors in high school when Kelly suggested that they enter their school’s annual business plan competition. They both loved to cook and would often prepare meals together with each of them making a signature dish: Griffith always made her infamous chicken wings and Kelly mastered the desert course with her cake baking skills.  It was during one of these dinners that the girls jokingly decided to combine their skills in the kitchen into a business plan for a catering company that combined their best recipes.

And although it all started out as a joke, they won the business plan competition and soon realized that they their idea might be a food pairing made in heaven. Soon after, they used their winnings from the competition to launch their home-based catering company, Cake N Wings.

A few false starts caused them to put their business dreams on hold, but in March of 2009, they re-launched Cake N Wings and have been going full steam ahead ever since. Now, with clients across the Tri-State area, Griffith and Kelly are looking to take things to the next level by expanding the Cake N Wings business into the fast lane with a food truck. Knowing that they wouldn’t be able to cover the costs of launching the truck on their own, the ladies turned to popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, to give them a boost.

Madame Noire recently caught up with the girls to discuss their goal of owning a food truck and how they came up with their business idea during a slumber party.

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