Meet Quiana “Que” Rice
Quiana Que Rice
Entrepreneur · Chef · Educator

Quiana
“Que” Rice. the woman behind the work

Founder. Operator. Healthy Food Fighter. Que has spent more than a decade building businesses, creating experiences, serving people, and learning the lessons that only come from doing the work for real.

Purpose before platform

Bigger than
food.

Que’s work has always started with the same idea: help people live better, gather better, and build better. Cooking opened the door. Business, education, community, and service expanded the room.

“Once you understand your purpose, you can make the plans. God will order your steps.”

Quiana “Que” Rice
Built, not branded on paper

The businesses
behind the name.

Que’s story is not one business. It is a body of work built across food, hospitality, education, products, community, and now business training.

Cooking with Que
Founded 2015

Cooking with Que

The original platform behind Que’s healthy-food mission — built around plant-forward eating, practical education, and bringing people together around the table.

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The Kitchen by Cooking with Que
Founded 2017

The Kitchen

Detroit’s demonstration kitchen and culinary shared space, built as a café by day and a place for events, education, gathering, and experiences beyond the plate.

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DINE collection
Launched 2020

DINE

A dining and kitchenware concept created around beautiful, earth-conscious goods designed to bring families and friends back to the table.

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Quiana Que Rice
Operator · Educator · Founder
The thread through all of it

Build it.
Serve people.
Teach what worked.

The evolution from Cooking with Que to The Kitchen was never about collecting logos. Each business answered a different need — healthier food, a physical place to gather, products for the home, opportunities for community, and eventually a place to teach other owners what real operating had taught her.

That experience is what now powers Become the Brand™. Que is not teaching from theory. She is teaching from years spent inside the business: opening doors, creating revenue streams, building visibility, fixing systems, serving customers, and adapting when the plan changed.

A decade+ of real operating

The résumé is
the work.

2015
Cooking with Que

Que launches the platform that turns her healthy-food mission into an operating brand.

2017
The Kitchen by Cooking with Que

A physical Detroit home for food, events, teaching, community, and hospitality.

2020
DINE

The brand expands into dining and kitchenware designed around gathering, preparation, and the table.

NOW
Become the Brand™

Que turns lived operating experience into practical business education for owners who are ready for their next level.

Food Network · Ford Field · Little Caesars Arena · Comerica Park · NFL Draft · Fox 2 Detroit · TEDx
Quiana Que Rice
The next chapter

She built the business.
Now she’s teaching
the blueprint.

Become the Brand™ brings the lessons together across brand, profit, systems, visibility, AI, and content — with practical tools owners can actually use.

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