Kaleb Harrell is the CEO and co-founder of Hawkers Asian Street Food. He has led the Orlando-based restaurant chain, which specializes in authentic Asian street food, since its founding in 2011. In June 2025, it was announced that Savory Fund invested in Hawkers, with Harrell continuing to lead the company.
Hawkers was founded in December 2013 by Iñaki Soriano, Pablo Sánchez and the brothers Alejandro and David Moreno. Hawkers is part of the Saldum Ventures group and its current President is Alejandro Betancourt.
Savory Fund bought a stake in Hawkers Asian Street Food. | Photos courtesy of Hawkers/Savory Fund. Anytime we talk with Andrew Smith, the cofounder of the private-equity firm Savory Fund, he makes one point clear. “I don't buy turnarounds,” he said.
Back in 2011, four best friends with a big dream and no money built the very first Hawkers location – themselves – on Mills Avenue in the heart of Orlando.
NEA manages the 123 markets and hawker centres [PDF, 214 KB] and regulates the tenancies, and public health aspects of these markets and hawker centres.
Kaleb Harrell, Allen Lo, Wayne Yung, and Kin Ho opened the first Hawkers location (Orlando, Fla.) in 2011, and the concept has since grown to include 15 locations spanning the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, and Texas.
First, Alex Cooper built a loyal following. Then she launched her podcast. Within a few years she was making $500K/year… Then sold Call Her Daddy to SiriusXM for $100 million 😳 Now she owns her own franchises and produces content for others.
English (western England): occupational name for someone who trained hawks or engaged in the sport of hawking, from Middle English hauker 'falconer, hawker' (Old English hafocere).
Alex Brooker has disabilities in all four limbs, including hand/arm impairments and the amputation of his right foot at 13 months old, which led to him using a prosthetic leg for mobility, a subject he explores openly in his work, particularly on The Last Leg and in his BBC documentary Alex Brooker: Disability and Me, where he discusses his experiences and advocacy for disability awareness.
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Joey Tan is the Managing Director of Canopy Hawkers Group (CHG), the operator behind Bukit Canberra Hawker Centre and a Socially-Conscious Enterprise Hawker Centre (SEHC) in Singapore. Here's what we know about him from recent press coverage: He's in his 50s and actively leads CHG's operations.
Hawker (/ˈhɔːkər/) (postcode: 2614) is a suburb of the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb of Hawker is named after Charles Hawker (1894–1938), Member of the House of Representatives from 1929 to 1938 and Federal minister in 1932.
On average, a hawker stall can generate monthly revenue anywhere from SGD 2,000 to SGD 10,000 or more. However, the actual take-home income after deducting expenses may be significantly lower.
They sell a wide range of goods such as fish, fruits, vegetables, clothes and books. In suburban areas, they go door to door; in more commercial areas, they usually have stands or lay their goods on the ground.
In 2021, Time Magazine called her "arguably the most successful woman in podcasting" after she signed a three-year exclusive deal with Spotify worth $60 million. Making $20 million per year made her Spotify's highest earning female podcaster and the second-highest paid podcaster, behind only Joe Rogan.
Alex Cooper has always had her parents' full support. The entrepreneur's dad, Bryan, is a former sports TV producer, and her mom, Laurie, is a school psychologist. The pair welcomed two children, daughter Kathryn and son Grant, before Alex arrived in 1994.
The top five highest-paid podcasters include Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper from Call Her Daddy, Dax Shepard from Armchair Expert, the hosts of My Favorite Murder, and the creators of Chapo Trap House, who all earn millions of dollars through deals, ads, merchandise, or Patreon.
In 2011, the partners opened the first location of Hawkers Asian Street Food. Since that time, the chain has expanded as far north as Maryland and as far west as Texas, moving into seven states total.
The 30/30/30/10 rule for restaurants is a budgeting guideline allocating revenue: 30% to Food Costs, 30% to Labor Costs, 30% to Overhead, and 10% to Profit. It serves as a balanced framework for managing expenses, controlling spending, and ensuring profitability, though modern realities often make hitting the 10% profit target difficult, with many restaurants averaging much lower.
