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Meet The Sisters
Flatbread Grill®
Thumb Bread
Blog
- Entrepreneurship
- Food
- Friends
- Fun
- Personal
- Videos
Projects
- Rainbow Hummus
Press
Contact Us

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Thumb Bread
The Misfits: Our Personal Experience With Bullying
Flatbread Grill® Creates ‘Rainbow Hummus’ To Celebrate Diversity & Raise Awareness For The LGTBQ Community
The Biggest Fight Of Our Lives: Us Vs. Our Former Landlords & State Farm Insurance Agency
Mayor Zimmer, Local Bloggers Recognize Women Business Owners

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esendemirsisters

3 sisters who grew up in poverty & started a restaurant concept, Flatbread Grill® @flatbreadgrill + Creators of @thumbbread Stay tuned for more... 🥰

Fourteen years in the making! Never give up on wha

Fourteen years in the making! Never give up on what you want. Link in our bio to read about this new adventure. @thumbbread 💙💙💙
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#thumbbread #sisters #hoboken #entrepreneur #hardwork #keepgoing #womeninhospitality #business #dreambig

Life is full of big circle moments. When we were g

Life is full of big circle moments. When we were getting ready to launch this new adventure of ours that took so many years of dreaming then several more of doing… we had no idea about all the incredible opportunities that lay ahead. One of them was being able to continue our relationship with @followstevens by bringing our @thumbbread to their campus.
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Our father attended Stevens’ Institute in Hoboken, NJ years ago when he was still very new in America. He was accepted into the master’s program. He struggled financially to put himself through classes especially because he didn’t speak or understand English and he was also working multiple jobs AND playing in a Turkish soccer league. But hearing his story about how he found himself at this wonderful school, then being able to serve thousands of students in our restaurants, and NOW having our bread a part of the campus… it’s just an amazing feeling.
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Thank you to @stevensdining for the opportunity and if you’re on campus this semester- make sure you ask for your sandwiches on Thumb Bread. You won’t regret it!
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#hoboken #hobokennj #stevensinstitute #stevens #backtoschool #thumbbread #flatbreadgrill #stevensinstituteoftechnology #breadforeverything

We’ve decided to give up this life of hustling a

We’ve decided to give up this life of hustling and become baby goat farmers instead. 😁😎 #amishlife #lancaster #babygoats #farmlife

Right before a Zoom mtg. 🥰 👋🏼 #sisters #f

Right before a Zoom mtg. 🥰 👋🏼 #sisters #family #business #entrepreneur

Happy birthday to our big sister, Fusun. She’s b

Happy birthday to our big sister, Fusun. She’s been our second mom since the day we were born. She keeps the ship running, protects us like a mother hen, cooks us dinner when we’re too lazy to cook it ourselves, and has FBI-like instincts. She’s also super smart, responsible, kind, and generous.Though she prefers to be quiet behind the scenes, if it wasn’t for her, there’s no way we could do what we do. She’s the piece of the puzzle that completes our trio. Without her… there is no way we would be where we are today. 💙 #sisters #sistersquad #sister #sisterlove #sistersister #sisterhood

How it started... hiding behind this curtain hopin

How it started... hiding behind this curtain hoping no one would notice us. Had to drag Arzu out from behind it to sit down with the New York Times reporter and then when another reporter came, he had to sneak past the front of house staff to photograph Fusun and Arzu in the kitchen. We were so young and people were confused by us. They thought we were too young to own a successful business. We’ll post how it’s going soon... ☺️😎💙💙💙 #entrepreneur #restaurantlife #womeninbusiness #sisters #sistersquad #familyiseverything #bosslady #hoboken #nevergiveup #inspire #hardwork #success #entrepreneurship #restaurant #restaurants

To all those who served and continue to serve... t

To all those who served and continue to serve... thank you for your service! ❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙 #veterans #veteransday #heroes #hero #veteran

We’re first generation immigrants. Our father ca

We’re first generation immigrants. Our father came to the US with nothing. No one opened doors for him. No one gave him anything. He worked hard to learn English, support himself, put himself through school, and start his businesses. The same type of racism and discrimination he experienced on his entrepreneurial journey was the same kind we experienced as well. No one gave us a seat at the table. Some people even went out of their way to make sure things were difficult for us. It was only through persistence, courage, and using our intelligence, creativity, and integrity that we stayed in the game.
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America has its fair share of problems. Policies suck. Entire groups of people are disenfranchised and treated unfairly. Women in 2020 are STILL fighting for equality as our brothers and sisters. We may all be divided right now. But we love this country because this is where opportunities were ours for the taking. This is the country where you can work, build a business, follow your dreams, and go after what you want. It’s not perfect. It probably will never be. But we still believe that if you work hard, stay honest, and keep at it- that anything you want is yours, even if they try to stop you or take it from you. Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you’re powerless or that you don’t belong here.
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They may look at you and be offended by your audacity or boldness. They may wonder ‘how dare you think you belong here’… but friends, you do.
We all helped contribute to this country’s growth. There are hard working people who contributed to it. There are people who washed dishes, scrubbed floors, did back to back double night shifts, worked multiple jobs, and did anything they could to keep food on the table. We’ve been those people.
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No matter what happens next week, just remember, you have the power to create whatever life you want to create for yourself no matter your skin color, your race, religion, sexual preference, beliefs, or socioeconomic position. You may have to start at the bottom and claw your way to the top like we did. But the journey is always worth it. Don’t let them convince you otherwise.
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