Ep.7 Innovating by making comfort food healthy
Who thought that comfort food could be healthy?
Kitchen Confidential was born in Beirut out of the passion for creating the highest quality comfort delicacies by using nothing but premium quality organic and natural nutrient-rich ingredients. It all started in 2013 with the Khairallah family, Walid a Medical Doctor, his brother Imad a Financier, and Siham their mother, a talented executive chef. Together, they decided to transform comfort food into a healthy version without compromising on taste and texture. And this, after experiencing the effect of clean eating on their body and mind. By harnessing their family’s skillsets, they have been helping people with allergies, intolerances, or special dietary requirements, enjoy eating out or ordering in their favorite treat. All dishes are crafted in a dedicated gluten-free kitchen, ensuring no risk of cross-contamination.
In this episode, I interview Imad Khairallah to discover how he created this healthy lifestyle food concept with his family.
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Some key themes that Carole explores with Dora and Majid:
03:05: How he moved from the world of Finance to the world of Food and Beverage
05:20: How they brought together their family’s skillset and what they had to learn
07:17: What motivates him to wake up in the morning and drive the business
09:00: What the early days looked like
13:48: The importance of creating a social impact through business
17:30: What’s been challenging in hiring new team members
21:10: The most significant challenges he faced when starting the business
24:10: How he differentiated Kitchen Confidential in a crowded market
25:40: His tips on finding the right business partner
30:55: What changed from him when scaling his business
33:19: What is his advise for early-stage entrepreneurs looking to find the right business idea
37:32: How he makes decisions
38:42: What’s his approach when creating a new product
41:00: One of his favorite books
And so much more than that.
Innovating by making comfort food healthy
With Imad Khairallah | Co-founder and CEO at Kitchen Confidential
About Kitchen Confidential
A healthy lifestyle food concept, Kitchen Confidential was born out of the passion to create the highest quality comfort delicacies by using nothing but premium quality organic and natural nutrient-rich ingredients.
All dishes are crafted in a dedicated gluten free kitchen ensuring no risk of cross-contamination while accommodating all of the clients’ food allergens and dietary preferences.
It all started in 2013, when a family, with complementary backgrounds and skills and after personally experiencing the effect of clean eating on their body and mind, decided to transform comfort food, including items perceived as unhealthy, into its gluten free, allergen friendly, refined sugar free, natural, and healthy version without compromising on taste and texture.
The brothers, a Medical Doctor and a Financier, along with their mother, a talented and passionate Executive Chef, decided to have a social and health impact by creating a concept where people with allergies, intolerances, special dietary requirements and preferences or who are simply looking for clean transparent yet tasty food can still enjoy eating out or ordering in their favorite treat.
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