This week on Order Up, we are featuring a conversation with The Entrepreneur’s Studio host Chris Allen and founders of Sugar + Spoon, Ivana Orlovic and William Hubbell, about their thriving company specializing in safe-to-eat cookie dough. In this episode, learn how this business class project broke into the Seattle dessert food truck industry, the secrets of their successful co-founder relationship, and how an essential pandemic pivot displayed their resilience and reshaped their plans.

• (2:32) – UW’s Creating a Company
• (6:00) – The beginning
• (9:40) – Starting the food truck
• (11:59) – Pitching to the dads
• (15:55) – Sugar + Spoon
• (17:37) – A complementary duo
• (20:39) – The first big “no”
• (24:36) – Advantages of a dessert food truck
• (28:04) – Finding a co-packer
• (29:24) – Determining where to park
• (32:11) – A COVID pivot
• (36:12) – Cultivating a high-energy, positive environment
• (40:40) – Social media presence
• (46:56) – Rapid-fire questions

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