From creating gourmet pudding recipes to climbing telephone poles, Janel Prator, owner and founder of local pudding shop The Puddery, says she started her business by impressing her co-workers at her job.
“We would have cookoffs, and one day I brought banana pudding, and they loved it,” Prator said. “One of them said, ‘This is so good you could sell it!’”
A self-proclaimed born entrepreneur, Prator said she knew she was destined to start her own business from a young age. After she came up with a small pudding menu in 2006, she began selling it at local bake sales and community events and launched a food truck in California. After a few ups and downs running her business, Prator relocated November 2021 to Pearland, where she opened her first brick-and-mortar location.
“I didn’t know there was such a demand, but there is a huge demand for shipping pudding,” Prator said. “But right now my main focus is on my local customers.”
