Danielle Mahoney and Jean Colarusso are two women starting their families. While this may seem typical, especially here in Utah Valley, the two are also doing something not so typical. They recently purchased a Dream Dinners franchise in Orem, becoming two of many female business owners in Utah.
“I wanted to help women in the community have more time with their families,” Colarusso said. “I was a customer about a year before. I saw the benefits, and when they [the previous owners] were going to sell it, I knew it was something I wanted to do with Danielle.”
Mahoney also stressed that food brings people together and makes them happy, and she thought Dream Dinners was a good way to do this.
Mahoney and Colarusso are part of a nationwide trend of more women owning businesses.
In 2002, more than 6 million women owned businesses in the United States, a 20 percent increase since 1997. More than 48,000 of these women were in Utah.
Utah is about on the national average with a 15 percent increase in businesses owned by women. In 2002, almost 8,000 firms were owned by women in Utah. More recent reports have shown Utah to continue to follow the national trend of more women owning businesses.
Of the female business owners in Utah, only about 900 had paid employees, meaning that the vast majority of female business owners in Utah are self-employed.
Logo from Dream Dinners.
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