Chef Ebikela Emiowei loves to cook, read, and travel – the simple
pleasures of her life. She is a certified Food Industry Consultant and the Principal Consultant at ‘’Simple
Pleasures Consult’’, a full service catering, confectionery and consultancy business in Nigeria.
A graduate of Hotel Management and Catering, Chef Kela is
also a certified baker and advanced sugar-craft instructor. She has attended
various business and management trainings (both local and international) and
has over seventeen (17) years of combined work experience in restaurant and
kitchen operations from the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos and the White Castle
Hotel, Yenagoa; Customer relations, team lead, and website management from
British Airways PLC and Elite Travels & Tours LTD, Lagos; and as Cake decorator/Sugar-craft
instructor with Stesi Events, Lagos.
She also holds two entrepreneurial business certificates from
CBN South-South Entrepreneurship Development Centre, Calabar; and Enterprise Development
Centre (Pan-Atlantic University) in collaboration with the Federal Government
YouWin program.
Ebikela’s core business values:
· Proudly Nigerian – Socially responsible in
promoting culture, community development and Youth empowerment
· Professional – Displaying integrity, respect,
and responsibility in all our dealings
· Excellent Customer Service – Maintaining a
service culture by committing to quality
· Teamwork – Our team is supportive, loyal and
caring, both personally and professionally, for one another
· Personal Development – Fostering an environment
of continued growth and learning
· Fun – All work and no play …We believe in
working hard and playing hard. Fulfillment is found in enjoying what we do.
Ebikela is President of ‘Role
Model Women’ a co-orperative set up to positively influence and impact young
girls through organized skills acquisitions training programs. She is also the
founder/convener of ‘Kela’s Total Chefs’ an online community of Foodies and
Foodpreneurs where she provides free online consulting and recipe development
services to members with small food businesses and start-ups.
