Personal Chef Saves 20 Hours Weekly Through Focused Workspace and Community Networking

Allen Plemmons (00:00) flexibility of Shoal Creek CO-OP in itself is crazy. You know, the doors open up at 6 a.m. They close at 10 p.m. So it doesn't matter if you're an early bird or a late night worker, you truly have the ability to pick and choose your schedule. And the flexibility with Heather and scheduling everything has been a miraculous thing that honestly, should be charged more for. Hi, my name's Allen Plemmons. I am the owner of Personal Chef Collective, and I use The CO-OP at Shoal Creek for my business. My business has been using The CO-OP at Shoal Creek for a little over a year now. And... I mean, time flies, obviously, but it's been a great time. A couple of benefits of working in a shared space for me has just been the ability to meet new people on a consistent basis without having to venture out and spend extra time networking. The networking comes to you. The one thing that I use the most as a chef - the kitchen is the most valuable asset that we have. And the fridge space, obviously. I also love doing my office work there. I used to do it at home, but I found myself getting distracted by, you know, I gotta clean this, I gotta clean that, I gotta organize this. And so, being able to, like, lock in and get, you know, all my blogs done for the week, get all my editing done for the next content that I'm putting having phone calls, having meetings, you know, it probably saves me 20 hours a week. One benefit that will keep me at Shoal Creek is that they go to bat for you. If there is a position that they're in that gains success for anybody in their community, they're going to do it without hesitation. A couple of, like, successful collaborations are In the works. We do this really awesome collaboration with Magic on Edge. It's a magic show that they put on 2 to 3 times a month. We like to go and serve drinks there, we serve little snacky options for people to just kind of grab and go. And that's been a huge blessing because I love working with Travis. Then Heather puts on the behind-the-scenes actions and takes care of everything for everybody. And that's just a huge blessing in itself.