Bringing In $4.5 Million A Year Selling Dumplings 

She said a lot but I’m just curious how you only had $97 in your bank account after 5 years in investment banking ?

Her dad left her 30k, and have family that loan her up to 160k, so that helps a ton. Its really hard to save that much and have it in hand. Plus her dumplings are not really that great compared to the chinese opened ones in new york chinatowns, but her selling of the brand in english made her successful. Those chinese dumpling places, the owners dont know English so it limits them, but the chinese know where to go for good dumplings. This is coming from a chinese guy who ate dumplings all over america and china

How did she only have $97 in her bank account after working 5 years in investment banking? Uhhhhh

Nadia's mother is a beautiful lady

Her mom is so beautiful

She was rich from before. How does this story qualify?

I've lived off just eating dumpling for a whole 6+ months…… I was super addicted to it, like…… it was crazy how much dumpling I ate. It was just that good.

Wow amazing. I love dumplings. She seems like a loving daughter and lady

love hearing stories of families immigrating to USA to start the American dream..thanks for sharing.

Nadia is a remarkable woman 🎉 Congratulations on your success!

She’s managed to do something very hard and be successful. Props to her.

As a navajo woman, i love stories like these ❤ they really inspire me ❤

We love her food. Thank you for making your restaurants nut free and safe for young families.

so she made dumplings more approachable to w ppl

Two of her employees left the business and started up their own business called Dumpling Girl. lol Then she sued that other business. Well, if you want to start a business selling a traditional-food product, just sell the traditional food product. Don't sell the brand-name. The brand-name's taken. I have also dreamed of starting up my own food business, being my own boss and all that. Food businesses are one of the most high-cost business start-ups. And you really have to be careful with food preparation, safety and handling.

Her mom is beautiful

amazing story thanks very much for sharing this!😍

Thanks for the update.

a very good story by her marketing agency

Such an inspirational story!

love the story and success. where im at, there's several asian grocery stores that sell frozen dumplings and costco too. There's tons of hole in the wall places that sells dumplings. what sets her apart? location of no dumplings in the area? addictive dumplings?

This is an episode of how I got bankrolled

Now I want to eat dumplings 🥟

So much hate in the comments smh

Definitely seems like a promotional video for dumpling daughter restaurant, she already came from a rich background and had good support from family, she didn't make it on her own. Hard pass on this promotional material.

great story!!

I was about to order some of their frozen dumplings online until I saw $85 for shipping.

how do you have so little money left as an investment banker?

so she’s an extension of her parents business, this isn’t “make it” this is being given it.

please post net income next time. I could buy and sell $100m dollars of worth of things for little or no profit and that would still be "bringing in $100m/yr"

CNBC Start Rich

Please explain out of the blue statements like "I only had $97 in my bank account" after 5 years of investment banking, a traditionally lucrative job. I'm so confused, and whenever I see this it makes me doubt the veracity of other aspects of the video. Otherwise, good for Nadia.

We need CNBC didn't make it. Where you have people who against all odds went against the grain and didn't make it.

Nice work…inspiring story.

The fact that her employees left and screwed her you can't imagine the resilience it takes to keep going after that. No one should support thieves.

Why not say how much profit is actually being made?

Hats off to you!!! Indeed lovely name and good tast i believe😅😅😅

Something doesn't add up. If she sells 50,000 boxes a month she should be at at least $8m a year on the frozen dumpling business alone. From her website, they seem to cost about $14/box if you get the bundle which is $700k a month average. Including her restaurant business, that should put her far far above $4.5m a year. What am I missing? Is my math incorrect or is the frozen dumpling business new and just ramping up?

Her mom is so pretty

Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳🥳

The customers and response that she got is what forced her to grow the brand (meaning it was the money). Her husband said she doesn't have to work ha (more, like he doesn't have to work).

They should consider doing more fusion types of flavors such as Mac n Cheese dumplings or something

Very cool story. Best of luck and continued success

hmm....really craving dumplings rn for some reason....

Can u show how u make it

She definitely did have a decent amount of privilege.

I really admire you

She has a very pretty mother

Good!

No lie, but the dumplings don't look different from everything else. Pretty thick looking skin.

Very interesting! I grew up with homemade dumplings from scratch and have never seen dumplings shaped like that in China either. Usually, they have pleats at the fold, but hers doesn't. Hers looks more like Pierogi than Chinese dumplings. All the dumplings at restaurants in China are also hand made, not machine-made.

2. “Brining in $4.5 million” doesn’t mean anything. Beneath the surface, she might be losing money if she’s heavily invested on low margin and high risk items( perishable dumplings).

Total revenue $4.5 million how much are expenses????

Her family was already rich?

It's like a McDonald's Tale.

Very inspiring

well her story about how much she makes in a years don't even add up in numbers even and how the resturant looked like it looked like it was small resturant that don't make that kinda money even if she sells a cookbook etc but she makes money but that number in just at the beginning i would say no shot... she needs to have more then dumplings i would say it will take some good time for her to own that money if she is not on a OF then yeah might be possible

omg is this already a good movie story or what?

Yikes a bunch of haters in the comments.

4. She invested heavily to promote and marketing, her business, including her restaurants. However based on Google reviews, customers and consumers are disappointed to the quality of the dumplings, and the services inside the restaurant

stopped watching when she said her parents owned a fancy 5star restaurant. She didn't make it, she was born into it.

With a last name like Spellman, I don’t know how authentic the taste will be.

3. Real good and delicious dumplings use thin wrap. Only poor people in China can tolerate thick wraps. Poor people use thick wrap to use less fillings

Just grow up in a five-star restaurant, bro.

You lot on here are miserable. Can’t just say congratulations and move on. Even if she did come from money she’s still built a business which is doing very well! Entrepreneurship is hard and she’s succeeding. Well done to her!

She came from means. She’s not poor working class like majority of Americans. Congrats to her but can we have more realistic rags to riches stories

this isn't traditional dumplings. the traditional hand made dumplings have folds on the edge. the folds are particularly made so that the dumplings don't absorb too much water while being cooked. The machine made ones don't have it. If you want to claim traditional dumplings, you should make the flavor and the shape exactly the same as the traditional ones. Yours are itlalian dumplings, not the Chinese dumplings.

Just come from parents with an already successfully business and have a breadwinning husband. Got it!

Why does this seem like a sponsored puff piece? Lol

This has franchising potential.

Rip these employees slaving away for dumpings

Looks delicious - good on her!

“I have rich parents and I used their wealth to pursue my dreams and create wealth if my own”

So you can afford to pay your restaurant workers a living wage? But you choose not to and upcharge 20% tips to mint more money from your customers to reach 4.5mil?

i love dumblings SO MUCH. If i can have a lot of dumpling,s carlifornia rolls and seaweed salad, i would enter a food coma

How come her father only left her $30K? Did he leave everything to her mom or where did the money go?

How do you have 97$ in your bank account working in finance.. dude I have more money than that and I have a freelance job from time to time

Yum

She had $97 from her investment banker job. Her dad leaves $30k in her name and her husband tells her she doesn’t need to work- but she did because her dad wanted a “self sufficient woman” is it possible at $30k? Anyways, she took her family recipes and made the restaurant good looking, cleaner looking and worked in Branding. She knew that she could make more money in business deductions than a job and is why she left that career. I bet she made enough in that role and the way some stock prices were. Great story, but she ignores or chooses not to talk about privilege.

Wow so many negative comments, ppl are so petty. I am glad she’s doing what she loves, a lot of people can’t say the same.....

It is so silly that dumpling girl setup nearby. Usa is soooooo big

Asian family… you take care of everyone

I can honestly tell you I can make better looking dumplings than those and I am not even a pro. I just have some common sense in cooking, look into the different recipes I have learned and tried them all and come up with the one of my own.

I think her secret is the financial background she has. Wtg!

I love this

I had Chinese dumpling, 2 day ago. They pretty good, if you have the right sauce. Course. Many sauces qualify as 'right sauce.' A lot of people have a 'take' on what make they dumplings better. For some, it how much 'filling.' For others, it not about how much 'filling.' I like how 'Dumpling Daughter' dumpling not this bursting at seam kinda dumpling. Those are the ones, where the dumpling 'skin' hold the sauce. It the concept of pasta. But. Reversed. Cuz the meat on the inside. In some parts of China, they make these dumplings really small, so if you talking to someone, from those parts, and they say they ate 40-50 dumplings, it not like 4 pound dumpling. It a normal amount for a meal. Nadia pretty cool. She take this professional risk. You know? Chinese not known for that. Anyway. 4.5 million a pretty large sum of money. If I a dumpling professional, I think of dumpling that can go with the 'peanut sauce' in sesame noodle appetizer, which many Chinese restaurants serve. Meat in most Chinese dumpling not good with spicy peanut sauce, cuz of the nature of it savoriness. You might need like REAL meat, and that an interesting thought with dumpling, have ground filling. You know?

‘Dumpling’ this IP itself is more than 100 billion USD. Just like noodles probably that IP is about 1 trillion USD. Italian copied Chinese noodles back to Europe and became spaghetti plus pasta. So Chinese cultural foods each IP worth billions. 4.5million is too little

I dont see why she sued the former employees. They have a right to ipen a dumpling restaurant. Nyc has many dumpling restaurants.

dam what a snake those former employees were, i would sue them till there pockets went broke

Made it? How? She didn’t struggle! She was raised in a family obviously made of money due to a successful restaurant !

yummy

I had these and they are not good. I hate to say it as the story is nice… but they are just not good.

Her story sounds like a fairytale.

Dumplings look delicious. I HOPE the frozen is as good as the restaurants’. Sometimes they don’t translate. But, I’m gonna give it a try

Why is this a video? Let me get this straight: 1) Worked for only 4 years in IB with nothing to show for it 2) Moved back home and parents gave $190K/guidance/reputation to start a business 3) Remains unprofitable after 8+ years in business How is this self-proclaimed “CEO” considered successful? How did she even remain in business all these years? She’s just a rich kid that failed even with mommy and daddy’s help.

Free capital from family and husband to support financially, what there to lose? $160k are you kidding me?

1. This is a commercial for her to promote the business and sucking money from more investors.

5. Without looking at the published financial numbers, it is hard to project the future of her business. But making thick dough dumpling is very bad taste and a very bad start.

As soon as she comes to Texas, specifically Houston area it's game over

Lots of msg