My Start-Up Story: ‘I went from being unemployed to employing 12 people in a year’

This is the Startup Story of Grá Chocolates. A story about a lockdown social media post that changed Gráinne Mullins’ career and her life. She went from being an unemployed chef, thanks to the pandemic, to an employer of 12 people with a brand that can be found in Brown Thomas.

Gráinne Mullins was 2019 Euro-Toques Young Chef of the Year and her star was rising in the culinary world. Then came 2020 and everything changed. Originally from Galway, she had worked in kitchens as a teenager, but decided to study science after school. Food called her back and she took a year out from her degree to move to France where she worked in a Michelin-starred restaurant. She realised that food was her calling, and...

My Start-Up Story: ‘I went from being unemployed to employing 12 people in a year’

This is the Startup Story of Grá Chocolates. A story about a lockdown social media post that changed Gráinne Mullins’ career and her life. She went from being an unemployed chef, thanks to the pandemic, to an employer of 12 people with a brand that can be found in Brown Thomas.

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