We had the please of being interviewed by Silas Grant of The Information Age.
Arsha Jones and her husband Charles are natives of the D.C. area. Growing up, Mumbo Sauce was a part of who they were. They moved to Annapolis after having kids, but were no longer able to find the sauce. Arsha would make the sauce for the kids and they loved it. One day she had a light bulb moment and said, “I wonder if I could bottle this and sell it?”
After being featured by the Washington Post and subsequently receiving thousands of orders, they realized that this could be something big. And it is well on its way to being just that!
Arsha was gracious enough to talk about the origins of Mumbo Sauce, responding to the media exposure of their company, overcoming trials in business and her 30 second sales pitch to a major distributor.
Customer Love
My husband is in the military and we move around quite often. We’re currently in North Carolina and I came across the Capital City Mumbo Sauce website and decided to order a bottle. My husband and I tried it and we are IN LOVE! Capital [...]
OMG I am in 7th heaven. Can’t honestly say if this is like the old “eastern market lunch counter sauce” since it’s been probably 20yrs since I left the ATT office in SW dc, BUT you have nailed it. I got my chick wings today [...]
I bought this for my husband for his birthday and I thought he was going to cry. He is a DC native and ever since we moved to Atlanta he has been talking about how much he misses chicken wings and mumbo sauce. Thank you [...]
I first tasted mumbo sauce in the late 70s after.After a night of clubbing my first stop was on 14th Street NW at a carryout place. I can’t remember the name of the carryout but their mumbo sauce was like none I’ve experienced lately. The [...]
I moved to Charlotte, NC in 1992 from Northeast DC area. I have always missed being able to order chicken and mumbo sauce from almost any corner Chinese food joint. When I saw a sign at the local Chinese carryout for mumbo sauce I screamed [...]
