Business: Start-up catering company that creates gourmet meals for private, business and group gatherings. Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Minneapolis
Web: www.greenmangoscatering.com
Employees: On-call cooks and servers
Executives: Thao and Thomas Moore, proprietors
2008 revenue: $25,000 projected
Strategy: Growing slowly through word-of-mouth referrals, keeping overhead low and networking with businesses and individuals to find events to cater.
DISLOCATED WORKER INFORMATION:
• Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's dislocated-worker program: www.deed.state.mn.us/dw
• Minnesota Job Partners, nonprofit agency administering dislocated-worker services: www.jobpartners.org
• Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau, nonprofit, dislocated-worker services: www.mntsb.org
