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Patrick developed a love for cooking by watching & helping his father . When his cousins lost their parents, Patrick decided to cook for them. Eventually his cooking skills improved and his love for cooking grew more.

Patrick, migrated from Togo, West Africa to Silver spring, Maryland in the late 80’s. Upon his arrival, Patrick gained his first employment at Roger Miller Restaurant. Today, Patrick is now the owner of Roger Miller and has been running his restaurant for 10 plus years.

Patrick has built a good relationship with his customers and their reviews keeps him motivated. Some of which have informed him they can always get good African food from his restaurant. One customer in particular stood out to him. Patrick says
This young man has been purchasing large trays of different food from his restaurant. He informed Patrick that when he order different kinds of food, he freezes them and eat them for a while. He appreciate the fact that Roger Miller caters.

Patrick says, most customers enjoy and order Egusi, Tilapia, Banku, anything that has goat, and over all, healthy foods. These are the few foods that’s high in demand at his restaurant.

His advise to uprising business owners is
to have a heart of sacrifice, be dedicated to what they are doing and what they need to do. Also, accept constructive criticism and move forward.

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Lene & Abeba Tsegaye are the owners of Kefa cafe on 963 Bonifant street.
Abeba is now working at their Bonifant location while her sister Lene works at the Wheaton location. Abeba says working with her sister Lene is a blessing.

The two sisters are no strangers when it comes to working with family. They come from a business-minded family. In their home country Ethiopia, their family owns and manages the following businesses which include a car wash and a restaurant which is now becoming more like a coffee shop.

Abeba, co-owner of Kefa Cafe says most customers consider Kefa Cafe to be their family living room. A place they can come enjoy their coffee, relax, and talk about what’s on their mind. That’s not a surprise since Kefa Cafe has been in business for 26years. They have built good relationships with their customers.

Abeba says the customers are like their extended relatives. She and Lene care about their customers and their customers care about them too. They’ve been invited to and attended important events in their customers' lives such as birthday parties and even funerals.

Their customer’s children have volunteered and worked at Kefa Cafe too. There is a wall full of photos in Kefa cafe, closest to the register at their Bonifant street location. That photo wall was started by two of her long-time customer's children in 1997 and has grown over the years. The oldest children's photo on their wall is said to be 30 years old as of 2022 or close to 30.

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Meet Pair, owner of Kook Kai Thai Noodles Restaurant located at 939 Bonifant St, Silver Spring ,Maryland 20910.

Pair enjoys traveling and tasting different food. During her trips to her home country Thailand, Pair visit the locals and try their unique dishes. This inspires the many unique flavors and dishes served at her own restaurant. Her goal is to give her customers the full experience of Thai food in Downtown Silver Spring.

Pair also enjoys giving back to her community. Pair has successfully spare headed various projects in the Northern parts of Thailand to help impoverished neighborhoods with sanitary supplies, educational supplies and more. Pair, with the help of others have raised funds for these projects by taking photos of impoverished neighborhoods, what they are lacking and what is needed to improve the quality of life. Pair turns the photos into post cards. She then, sells the post cards to people in the city and use 100% of the proceeds to support impoverished communities.

Although Kook Kai Thai Noodles has only been in Silver Spring for a year; Pair hopes to do the same for residents of Silver spring. In the future, when her business is stable, pair hopes to partner with other businesses and organizations to collect supplies for the homeless and low in-come families. She intends to do so via fundraising and utilizing a percentage of proceeds from her business (Kook Kai Thai Restaurant) to support the community.

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Who else stopped by @kremlovelash to get ready for #halloween 🎃 celebrations this weekend? We want to know!
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Thai food….got to have it😋
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It’s Whiskey Wednesday at @quarryhousetavern and, uh, your friend is waiting for you…

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