Lakisha Hunter - "Chef K"
Chef K is well known in the city of Chicago as the owner of That Jerk Spot LLC. That Jerk Spot is a catering and food trucking culinary business. Throughout the city of Chicago, the food, personality, and customer service are highly recommended. Chef K is the renowned author of “Finding The I In WE” and her life story “Rise Above The Ordinary,” as covered on WBBM radio and featured in Newsweek, as seen on Chicago's very own WGN and ABC News.
She is the 2023 Restaurants ADVANCE Leadership My Journey Award winner and Chef K was the featured Chef of NRAEF 2022 IMPACT REPORT. Chef K is a NPSI judge and a HOPES mentor/trainer, using food truck internship to teach business concepts, culinary skills, and personal responsibility.
Prior to business ownership in the culinary industry, Chef K has worked in the culinary industry for more than 27 years. She was a CPS ProStart culinary/hospitality teacher and a restaurant manager simultaneously. Chef K overcame her learning disabilities as a child and she now possesses a Masters of Arts in Urban Ministries. Chef K is a strong advocate for education.
Among all the great success achieved by Chef K, she is committed to giving back to youth and families in communities bound by poverty and violence. Chef K passion is to inspire the next generation of Chefs and business owners in the culinary and hospitality industry. Raised in the inner city of Chicago Chef K relates to the unique experience of the youth in Chicago. From her own experience as a youth in Chicago, Chef K has created her non-profit “Rise Above The Ordinary mentorship program that will reach the heart of youth in need of mentorship and culinary training.
Rise Above the Ordinary is a month-long apprenticeship program that is designed to meet the culinary and social development needed for those youth enrolled in the program. With a call to serve, and the passion to stabilize such a passion to provide culinary instruction, Chef K has become successful at mentoring and pushing youth across the Chicago land area to Rise Above the Ordinary in the culinary industry, in their community, and in their families with the desire to open food trucks across the city of Chicago to be ran by future chefs who has excel above the ordinary, prepared to reach and teach others in their communities.
She is the 2023 Restaurants ADVANCE Leadership My Journey Award winner and Chef K was the featured Chef of NRAEF 2022 IMPACT REPORT. Chef K is a NPSI judge and a HOPES mentor/trainer, using food truck internship to teach business concepts, culinary skills, and personal responsibility.
Prior to business ownership in the culinary industry, Chef K has worked in the culinary industry for more than 27 years. She was a CPS ProStart culinary/hospitality teacher and a restaurant manager simultaneously. Chef K overcame her learning disabilities as a child and she now possesses a Masters of Arts in Urban Ministries. Chef K is a strong advocate for education.
Among all the great success achieved by Chef K, she is committed to giving back to youth and families in communities bound by poverty and violence. Chef K passion is to inspire the next generation of Chefs and business owners in the culinary and hospitality industry. Raised in the inner city of Chicago Chef K relates to the unique experience of the youth in Chicago. From her own experience as a youth in Chicago, Chef K has created her non-profit “Rise Above The Ordinary mentorship program that will reach the heart of youth in need of mentorship and culinary training.
Rise Above the Ordinary is a month-long apprenticeship program that is designed to meet the culinary and social development needed for those youth enrolled in the program. With a call to serve, and the passion to stabilize such a passion to provide culinary instruction, Chef K has become successful at mentoring and pushing youth across the Chicago land area to Rise Above the Ordinary in the culinary industry, in their community, and in their families with the desire to open food trucks across the city of Chicago to be ran by future chefs who has excel above the ordinary, prepared to reach and teach others in their communities.
