CHICAGO -- The frozen meals that AYO Foods creates and markets sit next to P.F. Chang’s food in Target’s freezer section. But AYO Foods founders, Perteet and Fred Spencer, would prefer their fare be ...
Naomi Waxman is the former reporter for Eater Chicago and an award-winning journalist who covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups. When Fred Spencer, a Chicago native and real estate investor, first ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A South Side couple is diversifying the frozen food aisle at grocery stores with West African cuisine. This time last year, Frederick and Perteet Spencer were celebrating a deal with ...
West African frozen meal and sauce brand Ayo Foods’ expanded from 200 retail doors to more than 20 retailers nationwide through a combination of cold calling and working with brokers to land shelf ...
West African cuisine has gained new popularity over the last few years due to the rise of prominent high-profile restaurants turning up in major cities across the country. A couple based in Chicago ...
Morocco exported 736 tons of frozen fish meat in 2024, recording an average annual growth rate of 22.7 percent since 2013, according to a study by IndexBox. Despite being sold at Africa’s lowest ...