Marcel Mven is a household name in Buea as far as restaurant business is concerned especially around the students’ residential area in Molyko and the Mile 17 Motor Park where his three restaurants are located. The 30-year-old native of Menji, Lebialem Division of the South West Region started his career in 2009 as a chief cook in a popular restaurant in Buea. From there, he worked with another new restaurant but things didn’t work out well. Mven then decided to be his own boss and alongside with his mother started from a humble beginning with FCFA 300,000 as capital. Gradually, things went on smoothly and he could make daily sales of about FCFA 70,000. The business kept growing and the day he made FCFA 110,000 inspired him. He said by December 2013, the business witnessed drastic changes with over FCFA 200,000 sales per day. By February 2014, I increase the staff to six people and we were selling in shift. This time, we were making between FCFA 400,000-500,000 sales per day”, he said.
“At this stage, I told my mother that it is time to follow my dream. I travelled to Europe where I did a one-year course in Tourism and Catering in the Budapest Business College in Hungary,” he said. After a few years in Europe (Hungary, German and Denmark respectively), he returned home in 2017 and met his business crumbling from 800 customers per day to about 150-200 customers daily. With his skills in catering and cooking a...
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