
RINGKNOCKER Virtual Meetup #36 with Jordan Foley
This event is already in the can! Check out the After Action Report for a summary of the proceedings and subscribers-only content like resource links, shareable video clips, and the full Meetup video with notes and deep links!
The guest speaker at this week’s RINGKNOCKER Virtual Meetup is Jordan Foley (USNA ’12).
Jordan is an active-duty submariner who is currently finishing his last year of law school in preparation to enter the JAG Corps.
Jordan loves to cook and has watched a lot of shipmates struggle through the transition process, so this past January he founded non-profit Chow to help veterans find success in the food truck industry. Chow operates on a franchising model, and rolls food-truck profits into other veteran-service initiatives. Jordan is now raising funds in the Maryland and DC area to support the purchase and outfitting of Chow’s first truck! Here’s a recent story about Chow in the Capital Gazette.
Jordan has found plenty of support inside the food truck industry. Joining him on the call will be Amy Katz, whose DC-area firm Curbside Kitchen has a platform that connects building owners, leasing agents, and property managers (and through their mobile app, everybody else!) with food trucks. Also joining us for the boots-on-the-ground view will be Army veteran and Soul-Food-Chef-on-Wheels Adonis Adams, owner/operator of the Montgomery County, MD, sensation Malia’s Kitchen food truck.
So why food trucks? In September, Travel + Leisure reported that 100,000 US restaurants have gone out of business this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Food trucks are the exception: unlike their brick-and-mortar cousins, food trucks as a category have THRIVED in 2020!
RINGKNOCKER came together under the proposition that shipmates, classmates, and comrades-in-arms who support one another will find a way to thrive through ANY crisis… including this one. Jordan and Amy have a message for every transitioning RINGKNOCKER who has considered taking a stab at the food-service business: there are opportunities HERE, if you know how to read them.
And this week they will teach us how. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!
This event is already in the can! Check out the After Action Report for a summary of the proceedings and subscribers-only content like resource links, shareable video clips, and the full Meetup video with notes and deep links!

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