Mirna Ashaka, a 24-year-old café entrepreneur, learned the business from her brother. Now she has a successful catering business – Detroit’s Royal Sweets – as well as a prime storefront in downtown Rochester under the name “iChillyn café.”

Ashaka’s brother married and moved to San Diego a few years earlier, starting a business in El Cajon named Royal Sweets. This is where Ashaka worked for over three months before starting her own catering business, aptly named Detroit’s Royal Sweets – a nod to her brother, to whom she says she owes everything.

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