Episode #55 is now Live
Meet Anna Petridis former owner of Patissez.
Anna and her family have been in business and Hospitlaity their whole lives
After selling their successful school uniform business to Lowes an opportunity to open their own cafe presented itself, so they jumped at the opportunity to open a venues together.
They renovated the existing venue and the cafe Patissez was born.
Within a few months they had lines out the door every day from people travelling all around Australia, thanks to Annas creation of the freak-shakes, over the top milkshakes that everyone wanted to try.
Within 6 months they had opened their second store in Canberra which was then followed by stores in Malaysia. Singapore, India and Qatar.
From the outside it looked like Anna and her family were living the best life with all the success in the world, But internally things couldn’t be more different.
Within a few years, they had lost everything, Anna’s partner left her, they lost their family home and they went into liquidation.
Lost everything except the support of each other and their family.
They stuck together and when her grandmother heard they were struggling she stepped in, bought their original store back from the liquidators, which Anna and her family went back to work in which they eventually bought back off her, turned it around and ended up making it one of canberras best cafes and selling it for a great profit.
Anna will be the first to admit she wasn’t a great business owner and operator but through all of the hardship she has learnt from
All the mistakes and come out of it to be an amazing leader and business woman.
I’m so grateful I get to interview amazing people and business owners every week. Every story is so inspiring. But I have to admit this is most inspiring story I have ever heard and what’s amazing is this is just the start for the Petridis family. Their next venue is amazing Mexican concept called cartel which is the first of its kind in Australia.
We were also grateful to have Anna’s beautiful mother join us and share part of her story with us.