{"id":42078,"date":"2020-03-25T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a4cb.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=42078"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:44:17","slug":"amazing-edibles","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/a4cb.org\/es\/client-stories\/amazing-edibles\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Edibles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHubo mucho aprendizaje y apoyo en un momento en que sent\u00eda que el mundo no estaba de mi lado.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Andrea Herrera<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrea Herrera started working in restaurants when she was 13 years old. After college, she began her career in restaurant management, and worked for some of Chicago\u2019s most renowned establishments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1994, Andrea started Amazing Edibles. She started small with a passionate team on a mission to \u201cfoster relationship building over bread-breaking events.\u201d Her business grew, and Andrea began catering for universities, non-profits, and Oprah Winfrey\u2019s production company, Harpo Productions. In 2015, Andrea came to A4CB for a business loan to continue growing Amazing Edibles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the pandemic, Amazing Edibles employed 20 full-time staff, plus 40 part-time waiters, bartenders, and chefs and operated out of a 5,000-squarefoot kitchen in the Near West Side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic halted the business\u2019s growth. \u201cOur business is events based, and in 2020, you couldn\u2019t gather people at all,\u201d Andrea said. \u201cBusiness dropped about 80%, and we laid off about 80% of our team.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realizing that she needed to create a new revenue stream, Andrea started a second company, Boxperience. 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