Janique and Anthony Edwards connected through food. Now they're connecting others with Black-owned restaurants.
In 2016, Janique had recently moved to Brooklyn when she started dating Anthony.
As their relationship progressed, they continued searching for Black-owned restaurants where they could share meals together. EatOkra connects users to Black-owned restaurants in their city. And the name of the app itself symbolizes connection. "So we went through like two iterations of the app over those two years. And we wanted to kind of improve the experience, add more features and things like that," before launching the current version in 2020. EatOkra is now available in the App Store and on Google Play., especially for Black and Latino people, but Anthony said the real gatekeepers for them were the community members.
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