Instead of keeping their cooking low key, Kandi Burruss provided them with an opportunity to cook for others in a structured environment. They’ve been running their southern eatery since 2012, and it doesn’t look like the Old Lady Gang is going to be going anywhere any time soon.
Elizabeth Chambers: BIRD Bakery
Chambers and her husband Arnie Hammer opened up BIRD Bakery back in 2012. Chambers grew up helping her mother and grandmother run their catering business out of her childhood home, so when she was given the opportunity to open her own bakery, she jumped at the prospect and has been running with it since.
BIRD bakery serves the highest quality ingredients that they can locally source at a fair and ethical price range. Chambers and Hammer donate all of their leftover food and pastries to homeless foundations and various philanthropies around San Antonio, Texas.
Joanna and Chip Gaines: Magnolia Table
Magnolia Table opened when Joanna and Chip Gaines purchased the old Elite Cafe building in Waco, Texas. This was the cafe that famously housed Elvis Presley and other political elites for long periods of time, and when the great tornado of 1953 destroyed the building, it sat dormant until the early 2000s.