👨🏾🍳 Quick Background About Me
My name is Chef Jacoby Ponder, a U.S. Navy Veteran, Culinary Educator, and Founder of Chefpreneur Academy. With over 23 years in culinary and hospitality leadership, I’ve trained chefs at the college level, led multi-million-dollar food service operations, and built my own successful brands through cooking, teaching, and entrepreneurship. I created Chefpreneur Academy because I saw too many talented chefs struggling — not with cooking, but with the business of cooking. My mission is to teach chefs how to go From Stove to CEO by mastering culinary skills and the systems, structure, and strategies needed to turn talent into income, confidence, and career growth. 💼 About Chefpreneur Academy Chefpreneur Academy is a training platform designed to help chefs, cooks, and food entrepreneurs level up through: - Hands-on culinary skills & technique lessons - Business development, pricing, branding, and menu strategy - Digital growth coaching - Leadership & kitchen management training - ServSafe + ACF credentials - Career, course, and entrepreneurship pathways Our goal is simple:To empower chefs to build profitable, confident, sustainable careers — not just jobs. 👇 Drop Your Responses Below This community is built FOR YOU — so your feedback guides everything we create next.Let’s grow together, learn together, and elevate this industry one chef at a time.