Ownership and service have always been at the center of Kitchen + Kocktails by Kevin Kelley.
With Haitian heritage, Kelley was the oldest of 17 grandchildren, and as early as age 7 he spent time in the kitchen watching his grandmother cook. These moments also taught him the importance of hospitality, he shared with AFROTECH in an interview.
He is a practicing litigation lawyer as well with more than two decades of experience and has recovered more than $1 billion for his clients. He shares that his best friends, who are also lawyers, still joke with him about his law school aspiration to sell chicken and liquor one day…