Laura Gardner’s Perfect Bite | Packing Chicago’s Favorite Flavors into Potato Chips

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The Perfect Bite

Sarah Perkins

38 episodes

1 day ago

Your fusion of food and entrepreneurship, The Perfect Bite brings you inspiring conversations with chefs, restaurateurs, CPG brand founders, food tech founders, and more in the food and beverage industry, highlighting their experiences and how they've cooked up something new. From emerging brands to established business owners, you'll learn from the best entrepreneurs in food, beverage, hospitality, and agriculture about how they started their businesses, what problems they're solving, the tough times they've overcome, and their best advice for entering these industries or starting your own business. We end each episode with the world's best and hardest question: What is your perfect bite?

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Laura Gardner’s Perfect Bite | Packing Chicago’s Favorite Flavors into Potato Chips

The Perfect Bite

1 hour 40 seconds

1 month ago

Laura Gardner’s Perfect Bite | Packing Chicago’s Favorite Flavors into Potato Chips

What happens when you mix hometown pride, bold flavors, and decades of CPG experience? You get Local Style Potato Chips, Chicago’s favorite foods reimagined in snackable form.

This week on The Perfect Bite, host Sarah Perkins sits down with Laura Gardner, founder of Local Style, to talk about her journey from Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo to launching a startup that has Chicago buzzing.

Laura shares how memories of eating Better Made chips with her grandmother and a honeymoon in Japan enjoying unique chip flavors sparked the idea for Local Style, how she brought iconic flavors like Italian Beef, Chicago Hot Dog, Deep Dish Pizza, and Hot Giardiniera to life, and why entrepreneurship in her 40s was the right move.

We also dive into:

How Local Style exploded from 12 to 140+ retailers in just four months
What it’s like to build a business with your spouse
Laura’s viral Local Style packaging dress at the James Beard Awards
The power of Chicago pride in food entrepreneurship
Her advice for anyone ready to finally take the leap into building their dream

If you love snacks, debating Chicago foods, or entrepreneurial stories full of resilience and creativity, you won’t want to miss this episode.

To learn more and order Local Style nationwide, head to www.localstylechips.com. You also can order Local Style on Here Here Market nationwide at www.hereheremarket.com.

Follow Local Style on Instagram and Tiktok @localstylechips.

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