About Quiana “Que” Rice | Entrepreneur, Chef & Educator
Entrepreneur · Chef · Educator

Quiana
“Que” Rice.

Entrepreneur. Chef. Educator. Operator. 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.

Quiana Que Rice
Detroit · Founder · Operator
Built from experience. Real businesses · real lessons
Rooted in Detroit. Food · Hospitality · Business
Built to teach. Practical education for owners
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, hospitality, and service expanded the room.

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

Quiana “Que” Rice
The work behind the name

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 practical business education.

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.

Visit Cooking with Que ↗
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.

Visit The Kitchen ↗
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.

See how the work evolved →
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 now powers two distinct ways to learn from Que: Become the Brand™ for entrepreneurs and business owners, and Corporate & Organization Trainings for companies, nonprofits, and teams. Both are built from years spent inside the business — opening doors, creating revenue streams, building visibility, strengthening systems, serving customers, and adapting when the plan changed.

More than a decade of building

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
Business Education & Training

Que turns lived operating experience into practical education for business owners through Become the Brand™ and for organizations through Corporate & Organization Trainings.

Food Network · Ford Field · Little Caesars Arena · Comerica Park · NFL Draft · Fox 2 Detroit · TEDx
Choose the path that fits

Two paths.
Same lived experience.

01
Become the Brand™

Business education for entrepreneurs and owners ready to strengthen positioning, profitability, systems, visibility, AI, and content.

Explore Become the Brand™ →

02
Corporate & Organization Trainings

Practical, implementation-first training for companies, nonprofits, teams, and organizations that want useful business education — not another lecture.

Explore Corporate Trainings →

Quiana Que Rice
Learn from the work

She built it.
Now she teaches
from experience.

Que’s education is grounded in what she has actually built, operated, fixed, grown, and learned. Choose the path that fits how you want to work with her.

Work with Que Education for owners & organizations
Choose a Path →