For Rickey Booker, Sr., the CEO of Breakfast Brothers, making meals for family and friends is something he enjoys.
“I cook at home and a big Thanksgiving feast every year for my friends and family. I have favorite dishes that people would call and ask me to cook for them. It [cooking] just comes natural to me. I just never knew that one day I would do it as a full living,” says Booker, the co-owner of the popular Dallas-Fort Worth area eatery. He founded the restaurant chain specializing in breakfast and Southern comfort food with business partner Jonathan Biley-Smith.
While not a formally trained chef, Booker credits his grandmother and other women in his family for the passion of cooking, which eventually became his purpose…