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Akshay speaking at Slow Money Northern California
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“It’s not the gig-economy model, where you can clock in and clock out. This is a lifetime battle that doesn’t operate at the speed of venture capital.” The New York Times · Headway · Meghan McCarron, 2024 · Read

Featured

The Next Thing You Eat with David Chang on Hulu
Hulu

The Next Thing You Eat · with David Chang

Episode 3 · 2021
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Home Restaurant documentary still
California International Short Film Festival

Best Documentary · Home Restaurant

Dir. Eda Benjakul · KVCR / PBS · Telly Awards (Directing & Social Impact) · Oscar-qualifying via AmDocs 2020
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The New York Times · Headway

Meet the New Home Kitchen Business

Meghan McCarron · 2024-10-25
“It’s not the gig-economy model, where you can clock in and clock out. This is a lifetime battle that doesn’t operate at the speed of venture capital.”
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Penguin Random House · Dutton

World Eaters · Catherine Bracy

2025 · Foodnome cited as a case study
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Television & Local Press

ABC7 Riverside Foodnome feature — home cook preparing and delivering meals
ABC 7

Foodnome in Riverside

Feature of the Foodnome movement in Riverside. We saw a 250% MoM growth in sales during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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KRON Live Bay Area home restaurant feature
KRON Live

Alameda Man Owns Bay Area’s First Home Restaurant

Highlight of my first home restaurant in the Bay Area. We expanded to 36 other home restaurants from there.
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Spectrum News 1 live studio interview about Foodnome
Spectrum News 1

Live TV Interview

Live studio interview + spotlight on Lucy of Barra de Pan.
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United Plates of America with Gary Takle
United Plates of America

A Tour of Riverside Home Restaurants

A tour of Riverside home restaurants and the stories that drive them.
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Good Day Sacramento studio interview about Foodnome
Good Day Sacramento

Foodnome on Local TV

My first live TV interviews when Foodnome was just getting started.
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ABC Localish, My Home Restaurant, BaoHouse
ABC Localish

My Home Restaurant · BaoHouse

Localish’s feature on Bao House, the first legally permitted home restaurant in the Bay Area.
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Akshay speaking at Lao Family Youth Conference
Lao Family Youth Conference

Guest Speaker

Speaking with the next generation about food, community, and starting things.
Eater LA article screenshot
Eater LA

Inside Riverside, the Only California County Where Home Restaurants Are Legal

2020 · Foodnome and the AB-626 rollout
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Comstock's Magazine — Startup of the Month
Comstock’s · Startup of the Month · 2019

Awards & Recognition

Telly Awards
Directing & Social Impact, for Home Restaurant (subject of) 2020
AmDocs
Official Selection, Oscar-qualifying short documentary 2020
California International Shorts
Winner, Home Restaurant 2020
Comstock’s
Startup of the Month 2019
AB-626
Helped pass the Homemade Food Operations Act in California 2018

Selected Press

books & publications.
major outlets.
bay area, sacramento & riverside.
industry & trade.