Houston TV news station, KHOU, recently interviewed alumna Lisa Richardson, MBA ’14, about her popular bakery and coffee house, Blond Biscotti. Richardson opened the business in 2013 with her mother and they are planning more locations.

Richardson shares her story saying it had been her dream ever since she was seven years old to open a bakery. She got started on the path while a junior in high school when her grandmother signed her up for cake decorating lessons. Afterward, she started a successful wedding cake business that paid for a portion of her rent while she was an undergraduate student studying nutrition.

Richardson’s mom shared the dream of opening a bakery and had the idea to focus exclusively on biscotti. Later they realized that that coffee was the perfect pairing, and that was how the idea for Blond Biscotti came to fruition. The name comes from the very first biscotti that her mom made for her. Their biscotti and coffee are unique because the biscotti is soft-baked and their coffee is a “hand-poor-over” style. See the full interview.