“We provide product to restaurants, including fry baskets, steak knives, serving trays, flatware,” Hu said. The brainstormIn the early ’90s, after failing to land a customer service job with AT&T in Boston, Hu moved to Los Angeles to be near friends. “When life puts you in a difficult position, you will be amazed at how well you can survive,” Hu said. They can make these things cheaper, and I can supply it for them.’ ”Ignore failurePeople assumed she would fail, Hu recalled. They were having their baseball caps made in South America, but they became my first customer.”“I went back to China, found a factory that wanted the work,” Hu said.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 07, 2017 18:03 UTC