Small Business Today Magazine AUG 2014 SIVER STONE EVENTS | Page 9

From simple, elegant dinners to great events for several thousand people, Silver Stone’s motto is “whatever it takes!”
Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Stone

During that time, a good friend of Elizabeth’s was planning a Christening for her
baby. Elizabeth offered to provide the
food for the event, and the day after, one
of the guests called Elizabeth and asked if
she catered. All that was going through
her mind was, “If somebody wants to pay
me to make chicken salad, I’m more than
happy to do that!” So in 1987, that is how
it all began!
Living at her mother’s home at the time,
Elizabeth’s catering business began rather
inauspiciously as she did a little here and
a little there for friends. The catering requests grew and grew and by the time
Elizabeth had applied to medical school,
the catering business had really taken off.
It was at this juncture that she knew she
needed to make a decision. She kept asking herself, “Am I going to medical school
or am I going to continue catering?” Unable to make up her mind, everything
came to a sudden head during the Christmas season of 1992.
Elizabeth knew something had to be
wrong when her mother came to her at
seven in the morning and said, “Baby, we
need to have a chat”. Her mother continued, “I get up in the morning and there are
people in my kitchen and I go to bed and
there are people in my kitchen. When I
got up today, I see 15 cases of produce on
top of my mother’s antique dining room

table. I love you very much but you need
to either go cater or go to medical school,
but whatever you do, you need to not do
it in my house!
So with a gentle yet stern voice, Elizabeth’s mother kicked her out of the nest.
Elizabeth made the decision to postpone
her acceptance to medical school and by
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