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Let's Talk Womxn - Entrepreneurs. Food & Drink.
Let's Talk Womxn - Entrepreneurs. Food & Drink.

LET’S TALK IS A COLLABORATION OF WOMEN RESTAURATEURS TO BUILD COMBINED ECONOMIC POWER. IT IS NOT AN ORGANIZATION, IT IS NOT AN ENTITY, IT IS AN ACTION-LED MOVEMENT BY WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS AS PEERS.

City Cohosts

Anne Quatrano
Anne Quatrano
Atlanta
Deborah VanTrece
Deborah Van Trece
Atlanta
Rosa Thurnher
Rosa Thurnher
Atlanta
Jen Ziskin
Jen Ziskin
Boston
Nancy Cushman
Nancy Cushman
Boston
ancy Matheson-Burns - Let's Talk Womxn - Boston
Nancy Matheson-Burns
Boston
Jodi Fyfe - The Paramount Group
Jodi Fyfe
Chicago
Julia Shell - The Dandy Crown
Julia Shell
Chicago
Korina Sanchez - Let's Talk Womxn - Chicago
Korina Sanchez
Chicago
Mary Aregoni - Saigon Sisters
Mary Aregoni
Chicago
Rohini Dey - Vermillion
Rohini Dey
Chicago
Sarah Stegner - Prairie Grass Café
Sarah Stegner
Chicago
Carla Chalkley
Carla Chalkley
Cincinnati
Joby Bowman
Joby Bowman
Cincinnati
Let's Talk Womxn - Teri Graber
Terri Graber
Cincinnati
Anne Boninsegna - Let's Talk Womxn - Columbus
Anne Boninsegna
Columbus
Royce Carpenter
Royce Carpenter
Columbus
Let's Talk Womxn - Columbus - Paula Haines
Paula Haines
Columbus
Let's Talk Womxn - Columbus - Wendy Miller Pughes
Wendy Miller Pugh
Columbus
Alli Jarrett
Alli Jarrett
Houston
Sharon Haynes
Sharon Haynes
Houston
Tracy Vaught
Tracy Vaught
Houston
Anne Shadle - Let's Talk Womxn - Kentucky
Anne Shadle
Kentucky
Let's Talk Womxn - Brie Golliher
Brie Golliher
Kentucky
Ouita Michel
Ouita Michel
Kentucky
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Anomalous Campbell
Milwaukee
Dana Spandet
Dana Spandet
Milwaukee
Marilupe Moreno
Marilupe Moreno
Milwaukee
Desta Maree Klein
Desta Maree Klein
Minneapolis - St. Paul
Barbara Sibley
Barbara Sibley
Greater NY
Maricel Presilla
Maricel Presilla
Greater NY
greater-ny-May-Fridel
May Fridel
Greater NY
Let's Talk Womxn - Naama Tamir
Naama Tamir
Greater NY
Charleen Badman
Charleen Badman
Phoenix
Lori Hassler
Lori Hassler
Phoenix
Tracy Dempseys Originals
Tracy Dempsey
Phoenix
Brooke Maynard-Perez
Brooke Maynard-Perez
Seattle
Kat Cirar
Kat Cirar
Seattle
MacKenzie DeVito
MacKenzie DeVito
Seattle

National Collaborations

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. March 1st-8th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. March 1st-8th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

Look out for details by city.
Come drenched in gold and glamour.
To our gourmet parties with a national footprint.
Tasting stations & cocktails by 10-30+ restaurants in each city.
Hosted by women owned businesses.
For the entire city, all men and women are welcome.
Revel in your city’s gourmet power.
Feast, Drink, DJ, Dancing, Meet YOUR Restaurateurs, & More.
See 2022 national video 2022 WHM/IWD Let’s Talk & Celebrate.
National celebrations to kick off Women’s History Month.
By 700+ leading women restaurateurs & entrepreneurs.
Backed by: National Champion Sysco


Let's Talk Womxn - Virtual Summit

Let’s Talk Change Women’s Summit 2022.

Let’s Talk Change Women’s Summit 2022.

Kicked off Women’s History Month with an unconventional, virtual, power packed two hours for women entrepreneurs and executives. A deliberate antithesis to the many vanilla forums that abound. To revolutionize change within ourselves and around us. To amplify our ability to ask, be seen, and be heard. The four components are:

  • Transformational Women Speakers. Stay tuned…
  • McKinsey & Co. Remarkable Women Change Module. Presented by TED speakers, author, founders & leaders of this program Joanna Barsh and Natacha Catalino.
  • Men on Change. Jose Andres (Founder/CEO ThinkFoodGroup, Humanitarian World Central Kitchen), Danny Meyer (Founder/CEO Union Square Hospitality Group, Founder Shake Shack), Andrew Zimmern (Host Bizarre Foods, What’s Eating America, Founder Passport Hospitality & Intuitive Content)
  • Meet the Change Makers. Sarah Alter (President NextUp, formerly Network of Executive Women), Therese Gearhart (President, Women’s Foodservice Forum), Deborah Mintcheff (President, Les Dames d’Escoffier International), Joanna James (Founder, MAPP), and Rohini Dey, Ph.D. (Founder, Let’s Talk Womxn).

 


City Collaborations

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Chicago. March 2nd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Chicago. March 2nd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

Come drenched or accented in gold and glamour.

Chicago gourmet bash with a national LTW footprint.
30+ tasting stations & cocktails all evening.
Feast, Drink, Gold Drag Show, DJ, Dancing, Meet YOUR Restaurateurs.
All men and women are welcome.
Revel in your city’s gourmet power.
National celebrations to kick off Women’s History Month.
By 700+ leading women restaurateurs & entrepreneurs.
Backed by: National Champion Sysco

Buy Your Chicago Tickets now!
$125 VIP tickets 5-9pm, $95 tickets 6-9pm, afterparty 9pm on.

 
Chicago Participants: Vermilion. Eden. Prairie Grass Cafe. Dandy Crown. Saigon Sisters. Frontera Grill. Nobody’s Darling. Soul Veg City. Bistronomic. Pretty Cool Ice Cream. Floriole. Moe’s Cantina. Antique Taco. NaKorn. Taste of the Philippines. Egg Rolls Etc. Exquisite Catering. Victus Foods. Verzenay. Birch Road Clubhouse. Imee’s Kitchen. Lexington Betty. Moonwalker Cafe. Sole Ingredients. 1308 Chicago. Casati’s. Banato. Volition Tea. Fat Miilk. Inspiro Tequila. Spice Note Tequila. Bittersweet.

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Boston. March 1st. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Boston. March 1st. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

Join Let’s Talk Womxn Boston on March 1st for a night of Gold, Glamour & Gourmet to celebrate the women in food & beverage of Boston. This LTW Gala is a collaboration of over 15 Women-Owned Boston Restaurants + Distilleries + Bakeries + Breweries and promises to be a night filled with delicious food and drink.

With Heritage of Sherborn, Turner’s Seafood, Brine, Thistle & Leek, Dole & Bailey, Jinny’s Pizza, Boston Harbor Distillery, Darryl’s Corner Bar and Kitchen, Remnant Brewing, Urban Grape, and much more! This gala will be held at an exclusive location in the Back Bay to be released one week prior to the event.

 

Gold. Glamour. Gourmet. Celebrate Women’s History Month with AZ Women in Food

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Gold. Glamour. Gourmet. Celebrate Women’s History Month with AZ Women in Food

Tasting stations, wine, cocktails, DJ, Burlesque entertainment, and an all around good time with our family of women entrepreneurs in Food and Drink.

March 2nd
5-9pm

The Farish House
816 N 3rd St
Phoenix, AZ 85004

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Cincinnati. March 5th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Cincinnati. March 5th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

Join us for a foodie celebration by 16 members of Let’s Talk Womxn of Cincinnati. The event will be held at 21C Museum Hotel in Downtown Cincinnati from 5-8 pm and will include 16 food and beverage tasting stations (vegetarian options available at all stations), alcoholic tastings, henna tattoos, DJ Monet and an in person panel with all the women business owners participating that evening. We invite all of Cincinnati, its men and women, their friends and companies to join us in this ultimate gourmet celebratory party of the year. (Carryout options also available for pick up or Door Dash delivery. ) Must be 21+ for in-person event.

Enjoy fare and drinks by: Aladdin’s Eatery, BrewRiver Creole Kitchen, Supremo Oils, Laura’s Healthy Delights, Eden’s Creations, Sweets & Meats BBQ, The Symphony Hotel & Restaurant, TAG’s Cafe, Sugar Baby Bakehouse, Birch & Bloom Charcuterie, Mi Cozumel, Rollin’ Bowls, The Kentucky Millstone, The Arepa Place, A Toast to the Good Life Mobile Bartending Services, & Unataza Coffee.

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Houston. March 5th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Houston. March 5th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Kentucky. March 2nd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Kentucky. March 2nd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Milwaukee. March 8th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Milwaukee. March 8th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Columbus. March 6th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Columbus. March 6th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Seattle. March 2nd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Seattle. March 2nd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Atlanta. March 3rd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Atlanta. March 3rd. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Minneapolis-St Paul. March 8th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Minneapolis-St Paul. March 8th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

 

Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Greater NY. March 6th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

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Let’s Talk & Celebrate. Greater NY. March 6th. Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.

 

Recent Collaborations

Our Credo

  • The goal of Let's Talk Womxn is to build the camaraderie, counsel, visibility, bargaining and economic power of its women entrepreneurs. Together.
  • Let’s Talk Womxn launched in the thick of the pandemic in 2020 for women restaurateurs to learn from & support each other. It has explosively evolved to much more. It is a magical innovative B-cube model of “competitors as collaborators.” Started for women restaurateurs, it has grown to include all women entrepreneurs and makers of food and drink.
  • Started with 15 restaurateurs in Chicago in 2020, it has grown to 700+ women entrepreneurs in 13 cities across food and drink in just over two years. Three additional cities launched have morphed. Many more US and international cities are in the LTW waitlist and pipeline. Growth is limited only by the bandwidth of its women entrepreneurs and founder.
  • This action movement is entirely voluntary. And kept lean deliberately with no dues, overheads, bureaucracy, fancy office, CEO. The frills and financial drain of many conventional entities in our industry. All LTW support and revenue flows to its women entrepreneurs to boost their core businesses.
  • The crux is monthly sessions by city with "Deep Dives" into business issues to learn from each other, share counsel and referrals. "Pulse" is to know and help each other. Complete candor & confidentiality underlie these business sessions.
  • Each Let's Talk city is Co-Hosted, nourished and led by 2-5 leading women restaurateurs. Cohosts cross-pollinate learnings and successes across cities, including nationally.
  • Additional LTW collaborative initiatives have focused on amplifying our visibility, cross-promoting each other, and boosting revenue. These include keynoting summits, cohosting conferences, women’s restaurant weeks, corporate and nonprofit forums, multi-restaurant tasting menus & galas, gift baskets, food fairs, happy hours, joint events with Cities, and supper clubs. LTW have also applied for grants collectively, met with a governor, met city councils for regulation, written OpEds, negotiate with and refer vendors. National events have been held for IWD, WHM and the Women's Right Convention. Much more is always afoot.
  • Let’s Talk Womxn participate on forums to share their collaborative uplifting B-cube model for parity. Extends across sectors, within corporations for "intrepreneurs," and across countries.
  • For entities, corporations and cities who champion women entrepreneurs, backing Let's Talk Womxn is a natural choice. All LTW members are owners, employers and tastemakers with a mass following at the intersection of dining, consumer and retail. We are sponsored directly or via our 501c3 fiscal sponsor. LTW works actively with its city CVBs, SRAs, COCs, corporations and other partners.
  • LTW launched 3 additional cities in 2020 who morphed: Let's Talk Womxn Philadelphia, Let's Talk Womxn DC and Let's Talk Womxn LA. These morphed into Philly Sisterly Love, DC Women in Food & LA RE:Her (see inception GMA, NewsNation, LA Times).
  • The X factor in Womxn is an algebraic expression of explicit openness to women owners of all sizes, stripes, color, creed, format, scale, race, orientation, identities, startups or celebrities. All are peers.
  • Within six months of inception, LTW was included in NRN Power List Top 50 for inclusive impactful leadership alongside industry giants. A multitude of awards, accolades and media has followed organically along the way.
  • Women entrepreneurs in culinary are tired of the deluge of manuals, guidelines, conferences & webinars. Positive intentions that cause glacial change.
  • Women owners are tired of being on the fringe of involvement, whether on boards, policy, the media spotlight, or financing. This is dictated by economic power, PR heft, the fawning-over-the-beloved-few "TV celebrity" herd mentality. Let's Talk aims to redress this.
  • Let’s Talk Womxn deliberately has no mission statement, no statement of values and no five-year plan. The universe abounds with these well-meaning, murky, unaccountable, lofty articulations.
  • Let’s Talk Womxn is founded and led by Rohini Dey, Ph.D. Vermilion restaurateur in Chicago. Formerly McKinsey & Co., former World Bank, and former trustee/founder/chair of the James Beard Foundation Women's Leadership Program for a decade (2011-2021).

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