The offerings range from gift boxes for $4.99 to the Potato Birthday Bundle, which includes a pop-up birthday cake card by Love Pop (another Shark Tank company,) a potato with a custom message or image, and a birthday balloon or necklace. The company now sends unique, personalized messages, which have been written on potatoes, around the globe. He started the website for Potato Parcel on the same day. He decided to take the concept a little further, adding customizable and anonymous messages to the mix. The post was so popular that in less than four hours, it had over two million views. The idea for Potato Parcel came about when then-owner Alex Craig saw a Reddit post about someone mailing a potato with stamps on it. Their pitch may be revisited in the upcoming 20/20 Shark Tank: The Greatest of All Time special. Their sauces are still available in more than 100 Walmart locations, a handful of ShopRite stores, and the Lulu Bang website.įor more Shark Tank Season 8 Episode 6 company updates, be sure to check the links below:įor more on Shark Tank Season 8, be sure to check out our Season 8 Products page.Potato Parcel first appeared on ABC’s entrepreneur-themed program Shark Tankin 2016. However, as it turns out, the restaurant has since closed down.īut, Lulu Bang is still very much operational with their sauce manufacturing and select catering. ![]() In January 2017, the Beard sisters started a pop-up restaurant named Lulu Bang Burgers & Wangs at the Common Table in Philadelphia with signature dishes themed around the four sauces. As a matter of fact, just 72 hours after Lulu Bang appeared on Shark Tank in 2016, the company sold $60,000 worth of product and the orders have kept rolling in since. Despite failing to secure a deal on Shark Tank, the Beard sisters are doing relatively well for themselves. ![]() With no deal secured, you’d think that our Lulu Bang update would be short, but you’d be wrong. Meanwhile, Lori Greiner didn’t think that the product was unique enough, so she backed out followed by Mark Cuban. Robert Herjavec soon followed suit, saying that he found the packaging quite confusing. So, despite loving the sauce, both Kevin and Daymond John were the first to go out. Many of them agreed that it would be too difficult to sell the sauces online as well. Although the sauce had $45,000 worth of sales and was in 170 Walmart stores, the sharks were ultimately unimpressed with the low sales numbers. Kevin O’Leary, for example, pointed out that the business did not have an effective distribution technology. However, despite a successful taste test, as the Beard sisters talked more about how their business worked, the sharks quickly noticed a few areas of concern. Quickly after giving out the samples to all the sharks, they couldn’t get enough of it. The enterprising sisters started their pitch to the sharks on the right note by giving the sharks a taste test. However, that wasn’t the end of the story for Jorrae and Kelly, here’s a Lulu Bang update to explain what happened to the saucy sisters. Unfortunately for the entrepreneurial female duo, a deal was not meant to be. ![]() Coming in four different spicy flavors, the Beard sisters sought a $150,000 investment and were willing to give up 10% equity to get a shark on their team. Philadelphia natives Jorrae and Kelly Beard entered the Shark Tank in October 2016 during Season 8 to pitch Jorrae’s Lulu Bang, a food business built on the backs of the sister’s barbeque and marinade sauces.
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