Highlighting locally owned Black businesses and offering guidance on reaching prospective entrepreneurs

LAFAYETTE, La. — February is known as black History month, and during this month KATC sat down with Black cafe Owner Trey Ware about his thoughts on how black-owned businesses play in driving innovation and entrepreneurship in the city. “Black businesses like all small businesses are notorious for doing a lot with a little because of the financing and everything that goes along with it,” Ware says. “Resources aren’t available for black businesses so innovation and creativity are the ways we survive. Networking with each other and probably the most crucial thing is we are operating in the community, in the black community so the dollars we receive are recirculating through that community and trying to help develop and bring about little bit more economic uprising in the community.” And for those in the community who are wanting to start up their own business, Ware says to just keep pushing. “It doesn’t happen overnight. Be patient, have a plan and also be flexible. Be willing to change with whatever is going on, one of the greatest assets I have are the people and the relationships that I made with the other business owners,” said Ware. “Every business owner is not...