Moshe’s Kitchen – it’s all about the family
Entrepreneurship in the food industry is not easy but for the Ramoshaba family of GaWally village, it was a matter of pulling together to make their business, Moshe’s Kitchen successful.
Father Moshe Ramoshaba worked in Gauteng selling ice cream from 1999 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. He decided to return home and started to sell kotas. Xiluva Ramoshaba, Moshe’s daughter said their business now also sells burgers, pizzas, mocktails, cocktails, daiquiri, milkshakes, waffles, dagwoods, dunked wings, and short ribs.
“Because we are a convenience store, we also stock tin food, bread, milk, cold drinks, ice cream, lollipops, snacks, and airtime.” She said that unknowingly of what was to follow, her mother did a culinary course a few years ago. The family also acquired a generator to overcome load-shedding challenges,” she said. The family is ambitious and would like to expand their brand.
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“We are all about providing quality and delicious food that you will enjoy. We work hard to improve and add to our menu. The song ‘O nghe ha Mina’ by Dr Thomas Chauke says it all about family and going forward,” she added. She said that inflation is their biggest challenge. “Because the prices of potatoes and cooking oil fluctuate, it is not always easy to curb prices. “Using a generator during load-shedding makes it difficult to make a profit.”
She said stocking up on supplies is also challenging as they do not have transport and have to pay someone to deliver their stock. “Our business is small, and our products attract people from different villages, and we sometimes fail to deliver because we don’t have any mode of transport,” said Xiluva. “From where it started, I never thought we would be where we are now, but because we are visionary people, we saw a need to upgrade from kotas. God has been good; we thank our customers for the love and support they show us,” she concluded.
