His sons Gael and Samir’s taste for bowling led 30-year-old Landy Andrade to search YouTube for a tutorial on how to prepare them. He watched videos, but he also asked his mother, Reny Peñaherrera, how they were made.since years ago he sold ice cream.
So Landy made a few skittles and her husband and son were fascinated. She later received a visit from a friend, who was accompanied by more people, and she decided to toast the bowling. “Why don’t you sell them,” her friend told her.
Landy thought about it and took a piece of cardboard and attached a sheet with the flavors and prices of the bowling pins. And for starters, her mom gifted her $20 and made three flavors: nutella, galak, and Oreo. This is how his business took shape Bowling Gourmet Saga since August 2020.
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“And I tell my husband (Adrián): Why aren’t we going to sell ourselves to the Terrestrial Terminal? So, on Mondays and Tuesdays we would go away. At first we were embarrassed because the metropolitan (agents) wouldn’t let us (be outside), and I said: “What if they take us out and take my skittles?”, but my husband was always encouraging me “Landy says. Thus, two days a week they went with a cooler and sold 50 bowling pins a day.
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As Landy increased the flavors He also ventured to prepare chocobananas, which he admits were not to his liking at first. “They came out very bad, but I kept trying until they fit me well. My mom has always told me that cooking is imagination,” says Landy, who it took him a short time to graduate as a doctor.
Already having these two products, Landy created an Instagram account and almost no one saw his posts. He decided to write to a influencers and he promoted his product. “I write to him and without imagining that he was going to answer me. He told me to send him the bowls and he was delighted. In one day I had like 1,500 followers (On Instagram). I was left with my mouth open and said: my God, this can’t be.”
And with this, Landy increased orders and concentrated on home deliveries and sales from his home, located in Sauces, in the north of Guayaquil. The orders were no longer for five bowls but for 20, 30 and even more, and almost the same amount for chocobananas.
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Landy would wake up making the preparations and her husband would help her put them together. She grew so much that the freezer in her fridge was small and the products did not freeze.
“Since I had never loaded the fridge that way, the skittles didn’t freeze. I cried and with shame I told the people, who came to collect, that they were not frozen And if they wanted they couldn’t take them, but they were very kind and they would freeze them at home,” he says.
According to Landy, at that moment an angel came into her life and it was a friend, who offered to help her get a small freezer on credit. But it didn’t last long because she broke down. And another friend supported her to get a large freezer, which she currently owns and she has already paid for it.
After two years in that business, Landy offers bowls of gum, rum raisins, chocolate, pineapple, unicorn, coconut and others for $0.75. It also has cocktails such as margarita, mojito, vodka gumi and grasshopper for $1. As for chocobananas, they have black and white chocolate with almond dragees, peanuts and more.
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He usually sells up to 100 bowls per day, which exceeds 3,000 per month. In chocobananas it has an average of 65 a day, that is, a little more than 2,000 a month. It has combos of 10, 15, 20 and more products. Ships nationwide and every two or three months their customers bring their products to the United States when they travel.
“I have clients who have come to Ecuador, have tried it, and when they have a family member traveling to the United States, they ask for a ride,” he says.
Landy ships the orders through delivery Y With that income she pays for food, school for her children and other expenses that she shares with her husband.who wins the basic.
“Now there is economic stability. Before, for example, my children told me that they wanted to eat dark-haired because they go around the house selling and it broke my heart. He told them: ‘I don’t have’. And now I tell them: ‘My love, do you want to eat a dark-haired man?’” Landy says as she wipes away her tears.
She affirms that this path of maintaining a business has not been easy, because before she tried to start a business with cheeses and it did not work for her and she ended up in debt, but with bowling she realized that this is for her.
“Yes, it has been hard because sometimes you want to grow and the doors are closed. YI dream of buying a bowling machine, the industrial one, it costs about $5,000, and I’ve been looking for a bank loan, but they told me I can’t because I’m two years old and I need three”, he indicates.
Landy hopes to stay in the market, open a store and get his health registration to offer his product to supermarkets. He dreams of building “an empire.”
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“I see myself as a businesswoman generating work, have a bowling alley. I would like to put a space without charging from other ventures. I want to make my empire of bowling”, he assures.
Landy advises other entrepreneurs not to be afraid and trust in their idea. “One has to take risks and trust in God. From the first day I trusted God and here I continue dreaming because I want to make something great out of this ”, he maintains. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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