My guest this week is Laura Gardner, founder of Local Style Chips- a love letter to Chicago — celebrating the legendary local flavors is celebrating Chicago itself. For Chicagoans, food isn’t just food — it’s culture, memories, personality, and pride. With flavors of Chicago Deep Dish, Italian Beef, Hot Dog, Hot Giardiniera and Classic Salted.
I spoke to Laura about how it started and how she came up with the idea to how she has scaled the business from concept to now distribution to shops, markets and deli’s around Chicagoland. We discussed how she has grown the business and how her 1st paying customer was the show The Bear, as well as, her red carpet moment at the James Beard Awards in Chicago.
Lunch with Biggie is a podcast about small business and creatives sharing their stories and inspiring you to pursue your passion, with some sandwich talk on the side. Created, edited, and produced in Orlando, FL by Biggie- the owner of the sandwich-themed clothing brand- Deli Fresh Threads.
Local Style Chips Social
Local Style Chips Website: www.localstylechips.com
Local Style Chips TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@localstylechips
Local Style Chips IG: https://www.instagram.com/localstylechips
Biggie's Social:
Deli Fresh Thread's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/delifreshthreads/
Podcast's Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/lunchwithbiggie/
Podcast's Facebook Group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/lunchwithbiggie
Podcast's Twitter- https://twitter.com/LunchwithBiggie
Deli Fresh Threads- https://DeliFreshThreads.com