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Essence

After having a hard time identifying black-owned food stores and restaurants in their Brooklyn neighborhood, Anthony and Janique Edwards decided to do something about it.

BET

In recent years, the movement to support Black businesses has expanded within our communities and digital spaces. To meet this demand, entrepreneurs are seizing the opportunity by building and investing in their own innovative and dynamic Black owned businesses. 

Opportunity Desk

EatOkra in partnership with Dine Diaspora, is accepting applications for the EatOkra Black women in food grants 2022. They are providing $10,000 grants for Black women owned restaurants across the United States. 

Conde Nast

One of this year’s honorees is Janique Edwards, the COO and Co-Founder of EatOkra, an app that connects food lovers to more than 11,000 Black-owned restaurants, eateries, bars, wineries, and food trucks across the U.S.

Zagat

Anthony Edwards is a cofounder of EatOkra, an app that connects diners with Black-owned restaurants and brands. Jason Wallace is EatOkra’s director of business solutions.The app became wildly popular in the summer of 2020 as diners sought to support Black-owned businesses in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests.

Mashed

It started out as a quest for local restaurants in a new neighborhood. Now, it's a foodie phenomenon, celebrating and empowering black-owned businesses around the country. We're talking about the EatOkra app

The Manual

For husband and wife team Anthony and Janique Edwards, their creation of the EatOkra app was a combination of both passion and timing. A Harlem native, Janique moved to Brooklyn in 2016. Excited and intent on exploring the borough, both Janique and Anthony were eager to seek out and support Black-owned businesses. 

Tasting Table

EatOkra is an app ... brought to fruition thanks to an app. As the couple recalled in an interview with "Today," EatOkra's co-founders Anthony and Janique Edwards first met back in 2016, not long after Janique moved to Brooklyn. And — like so many of us these days — they found each other through a dating app.

NBC Universal

Now that their app, EatOkra, is becoming a household name, the couple is looking to help restaurants scale their businesses. In true millennial fashion, food and apps are at the heart of Anthony and Janique Edwards' love (and business) story.