"I wanted to give up so many times," Gonzalez recalls.
Today, with a year-old brick-and-mortar location and a booming business that makes between 150 to 300 deliveries through partners such as UberEATS each night to cookie-craving customers, 25-year-old Gonzalez says it was a long road to get where he is today - and onto Forbes' "30 Under 30" list. As the business grew, so did the move to a commercial kitchen.
At the time, the 21-year-old Gonzalez did it all, from taking orders and making deliveries to preparing the dough and baking batch after batch of cookies. The business got its start in Gonzalez's mother's kitchen four years ago. It was late, and the craving hit for a fresh-baked cookie, so the niche food delivery business was born.Ĭourtesy of Night Owl Cookie Co. his late-night delivery service that brings fresh-baked cookies in a variety of fun flavors directly to your door - while studying for college exams. Lee Brian Schrager, founder of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, was one of the Forbes judges to nominate Gonzalez, putting him through the cutthroat selection process alongside 15,000 other nominees.Īt 20 years old, Gonzalez says, he got the idea for Night Owl Cookie Co. Of the dozens of young chefs, restaurateurs, and foodie entrepreneurs who made the 2017 Forbes list, many were chosen for spearheading a new wave of clean eating (think vegan restaurants and grain-free tortillas).īut still others like Gonzalez are getting recognized for creating not-so-healthy fare such as homemade toffee, cakes, and - as the case with Night Owl - fresh-baked cookies in fun flavors such as Cinnamon Toast Crunch, s'mores, and Couch Potato, which combines chocolate chips, potato chips, caramel, and sea salt. The business news and financial publication released its annual list January 3, naming the young Miami native one out of a pool of thousands of the nation's most inspiring change agents - each selected from 20 industries, including food and drink - that embodies "today’s leading young change-makers and innovators” under the age of 30.
founder Andrew Gonzalez is getting a lot of attention for making Forbes' esteemed "30 Under 30" list.
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