Chris Khalifa's guest appearances

Chris Khalifa

Making It

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Azza Fahmy

Daniel Boulud

Rami Malek

Amira Rashad

Myrna Ayad

Alya Mooro

Patrick Rogers

Samantha Wood

Hassan Sharif

Amir Allam

Samer Hamadeh

Helen Farmer

Mohamed El Shorbagy

Isobel Abulhoul

Nelio Leone

OwlTail

Founder of Egypt's trendiest traditional food restaurant, Chris Khalifa sheds light on Zooba's growth, local expansion, and newest branches in New York and Riyadh. In other news, Bella Hadid announces her acting debut in "Ramy" role, Mark gets into his favorite spy movie, and how the Middle East's weather is driving us all crazy!

Founder of Egypt's trendiest traditional food restaurant, Chris Khalifa sheds light on Zooba's growth, local expansion, and newest branches in New York and Riyadh. In other news, Bella Hadid announces her acting debut in "Ramy" role, Mark gets into his favorite spy movie, and how the Middle East's weather is driving us all crazy!

Expanding A Homegrown Brand To A Worldwide Concept, Chris Khalifa Tells The Tale Of Zooba

Zooba sells taamiya, not falafel. When Chris Khalifa launched Zooba in 2012, the goal was to elevate Egyptian street food from cheap, delicious, everyday sustenance to a global brand. By 2020, Zooba’s value proposition had already shaped a loyal following at home and abroad with branches in Egypt, a franchise agreement in the GCC, and a New York outpost — opened just before covid-19 hit.  Chris talks to us about what it takes to change people’s perception on how much street food should cost through the power of a strong brand. We discuss introducing new food to foreign markets, teaching Westerners how to say Taamiya, and how Zooba survives economic crises.   ** Subscribe to Making it here for free https://bit.ly/35lugvb. ** Subscribe to Enterprise, our 6am briefing on business, finance and economics in Egypt (also free) at www.enterprise.press.   Making It is grateful for the generous support of: CIB, Egypt’s number-one private-sector bank and the partner of choice for CEOs and leaders of businesses at all stages of their growth stories The United States Agency for International Development, which has a 40 year history of inspiring Egyptian success in partnership with the Government and people of Egypt. You can check out Zooba here: www.zoobaeats.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zooba sells taamiya, not falafel. When Chris Khalifa launched Zooba in 2012, the goal was to elevate Egyptian street food from cheap, delicious, everyday sustenance to a global brand. By 2020, Zooba’s value proposition had already shaped a loyal following at home and abroad with branches in Egypt, a franchise agreement in the GCC, and a New York outpost — opened just before covid-19 hit.  Chris talks to us about what it takes to change people’s perception on how much street food should cost through the power of a strong brand. We discuss introducing new food to foreign markets, teaching Westerners how to say Taamiya, and how Zooba survives economic crises. ** Subscribe to Making it here for free <a href="https://bit.ly/35lugvb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/35lugvb</a>. ** Subscribe to Enterprise, our 6am briefing on business, finance and economics in Egypt (also free) at<a href="http://www.enterprise.press/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> www.enterprise.press</a>. Making It is grateful for the generous support of: <a href="https://www.cibeg.com/English/Pages/default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CIB</a>, Egypt’s number-one private-sector bank and the partner of choice for CEOs and leaders of businesses at all stages of their growth stories <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/egypt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The United States Agency for International Development</a>, which has a 40 year history of inspiring Egyptian success in partnership with the Government and people of Egypt. You can check out Zooba here: <a href="https://www.zoobaeats.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.zoobaeats.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Breaking baladi bread with Zooba CEO Chris Khalifa (Ep 15)

Guest Chris Khalifa Founder, Zooba  www.linkedin.com   This week, we’re joined from New York City by Chris Khalifa, founder of Zööba, an Egyptian street food concept he launched in Cairo in 2012 and took all the way to NYC late last year. Chris shares the story behind Zööba and how–after initially expanding too quickly and failing–they consolidated their business, learnt key lessons and set out to expand yet again to build what is now a successful—and some would say iconic—brand.  Post recording, Chris gave us an update on the impact of the current Covid-19 pandemic on Zööba, how they are handling the crisis and the steps they’ve taken to protect the business.

<h3>Guest</h3> <h4>Chris Khalifa</h4> Founder, Zooba <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-khalifa-a40031a/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com</a></li> </ul> This week, we’re joined from New York City by Chris Khalifa, founder of Zööba, an Egyptian street food concept he launched in Cairo in 2012 and took all the way to NYC late last year. Chris shares the story behind Zööba and how–after initially expanding too quickly and failing–they consolidated their business, learnt key lessons and set out to expand yet again to build what is now a successful—and some would say iconic—brand. Post recording, Chris gave us an update on the impact of the current Covid-19 pandemic on Zööba, how they are handling the crisis and the steps they’ve taken to protect the business.

Chris Khalifa on pivoting from investment banking to F&B by starting Egyptian street food icon Zööba and learning key lessons after initially failing fast and hard.