News You Can Use: Serial entrepreneur on a mission to change the restaurant industry for women of color.

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Brittany Tolliferreo.

She is a native of Pennsylvania, a serial entrepreneur on a mission to change the restaurant industry, and one of just a few women of color to open and operate a successful franchise. She has done this despite not receiving funding from banks and using her own resources.

Tolliferreo said she first thought about opening Chick-A-Boom a few years ago when she had some friends over to her house and made chicken sandwiches for them. After receiving some positive feedback about the food, Tolliferreo noticed a vacant storefront in her hometown of Folcroft, near the Philadelphia airport and about 15 miles from the city’s downtown area. In 2019, she contacted the building’s realtor and opened the first Chick-A-Boom restaurant…and as they say the rest is history.

Company Description *
Crisppi’s Chicken is an independently owned and operated fast food franchise based in Miami, Florida.
They open their doors on January 17, 2025.
The owners are Brittany Tolliferreo and her husband Kirk Hightower.
Brittney reached out to NFL Great Randy Moss, Who became a partner in the franchise. He came to Philadelphia and tasted the food at one of their previous operations and signed on to become a partner.

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0:00.0	The interviews and information that this show provides are for everyone.
0:03.9	It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and start living your own.
0:08.1	If you want to be a guest on my show, please visit our website,
0:11.7	moneymakingconversations.com and click the be a guest button to submit your information.
0:17.9	Let's get this show started.
0:19.5	My guest is a native of Pennsylvania who is a serial
0:22.4	entrepreneur that is on a mission to change the restaurant industry for women of color. She's one of
0:28.3	just a few to open and operate a successful franchise doing this despite not receiving funding
0:34.3	from banks and using her own resources. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation Masterclass, Brittany Tulliforio.
0:42.3	Did I say that correct, Brittany?
0:44.5	Talaferio, yep.
0:45.5	Talaferio.
0:46.5	Brittany Talaferio.
0:47.9	Thank you very much.
0:49.2	Again, I appreciate you taking the time to come on the show, Brittany.
0:52.2	When we talk about serial entrepreneur, what exactly are you saying when you say serial entrepreneur?
1:00.9	Someone that just is consistently just working hard and always reinventing myself and consistently just focusing on business, leveraging my experiences, and just really
1:17.0	focusing on, you know, my business and scaling my business and my operations.
1:22.3	Now, let me ask you this, because the typical person, 40-hour week, go to college, that's the plan. How did you
1:30.5	become an entrepreneur? What pushed you in the direction of not pursuing a career as a 40
1:35.2	hour a week person, but as an entrepreneur? Really just, you know, being tired of what you just
1:42.6	talked about doing the 40 hours a week. I'm a previous bank teller, and, you know, being tired of what you just talked about, um, doing the 40 hours a week.
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