Adenah Bayoh embodies the American dream. At age 13, she escaped the civil war in her native country of Liberia, immigrated to the United States, and is now one of the most successful entrepreneurs in her home state of New Jersey. Adenah owns and operates several individual IHOP franchises in Newark, Paterson, and Irvington, New Jersey. She also owns a real estate development portfolio with several major residential and commercial urban redevelopment projects across northern New Jersey. In 2017, Adenah opened her own signature fast casual, farm-to-table, soul food restaurant, Cornbread. In 2019 the restaurant chain expanded to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with locations in Wal-Mart stores in West Mifflin, Tarentum, and Greensburg. In March 2014, she was honored as one of the Top 50 Women in Business by the publication NJBIZ and in 2015 she was appointed to the prestigious Federal Reserve Bank of New York Advisory Council on Small Business and Agriculture. In 2019, she won the National Restaurant Association's Face of Diversity Award. Despite her numerous successes, her proudest achievement is being a mother to her two young children.
Adenah Bayoh
Founder, Adenah Bayoh and Co.
Adenah Bayoh embodies the American dream. At age 13, she escaped the civil war in her native country of Liberia, immigrated to the United States, and is now one of the most successful entrepreneurs in her home state of New Jersey. Adenah owns and operates several individual IHOP franchises in Newark, Paterson, and Irvington, New Jersey. She also owns a real estate development portfolio with several major residential and commercial urban redevelopment projects across northern New Jersey. In 2017, Adenah opened her own signature fast casual, farm-to-table, soul food restaurant, Cornbread. In 2019 the restaurant chain expanded to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with locations in Wal-Mart stores in West Mifflin, Tarentum, and Greensburg. In March 2014, she was honored as one of the Top 50 Women in Business by the publication NJBIZ and in 2015 she was appointed to the prestigious Federal Reserve Bank of New York Advisory Council on Small Business and Agriculture. In 2019, she won the National Restaurant Association's Face of Diversity Award. Despite her numerous successes, her proudest achievement is being a mother to her two young children.
