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About Francois Reihani.

Francois Reihani is the founder of La La Land Kind Cafe, the We Are One Project, and former founder of Bar Stellar, and Pok The Raw Bar. Born in Los Angeles, Reihani has spent equal parts of his life growing up in Los Angeles and Mexico.

In January 2017, the young entrepreneur transferred from the University of Southern California, to Southern Methodist University (while an undergraduate student at Southern Methodist University) opened his first restaurant concept, Pōk the Raw Bar, in Dallas’ vibrant West Village at the age of 20. As the co-founder and co-CEO of Pōk, Reihani helped usher in the first poke concept to the city. His natural business and industry acumen helped Pōk achieve incredible success, surpassing all initial (and already high) sales predictions. Just one semester away from graduation, Reihani dropped out of school to pursue his dreams full time.

Following the incredible success of Pōk, Reihani  flipped his first bar concept, Bar Stellar, in September 2017. Located in Dallas’ thriving Knox-Henderson neighborhood, the craft cocktail bar married effortless design with stunning presentation and the highest level of service. Taking a business that was on the brink of bankruptcy, it only took Reihani 4 months to turn the business around, and another 10 to complete a sale.

Ever since Reihani was young, he thought like an entrepreneur. He washed cars and mowed lawns for money. When he was in middle school, he bought candy from the store and sold it to his classmates at a profit. In high school, he started his own party promotion company. Reihani has always had a true passion for hospitality and strives to ensure every guest receives the best possible experience, every time. Because of this dedication to quality service and experience, he was the youngest sales professional to be awarded Top Sales Associate for Volkswagen’s West Coast division at the age of 18. However, the entrepreneur says it was during his time on the business development team at SBE that he developed a true passion for hospitality.

Reihani has now experienced the restaurant, and bar industry. He plans on using his passion for hospitality and entrepreneurship to better the community around him. "I am very fortunate to have had so much experience at this age, to really show myself what I desire in life." "You quickly learn that just making money is not the key to happiness, and that plays a huge factor on my next projects" , says Reihani. Future plans ensure a path in Social Entrepreneurship.

Years after creating the We Are One Project helping aging out foster youth, Reihani realized that back end support was not enough. Combining both his passions for hospitality and helping his community, to create La La Land Kind Cafe, a 100% organic cafe with a purpose to hire and mentor foster youth. “We dream big, and hope we can make a statement to our nation that business’ can and should be doing more. Social enterprises should lead our future, to create a better world” He is driven by one underlying goal: to positively affect as many people as he can.

Learn More at lalalandkindcafe.com or WeAreOneProject.org

Much love,

F