Shama Rashid is the progenitor of SR Foods, a Karachi-based home Chef and interior designer. Despite being married at a very young age, Shama Rashid is breaking the stereotypes and turning her dreams into reality. Today, Shama Rashid is the Managing SR Foods a renowned name among home chefs with her other famous social media food groups. Shama believes that different people have different aptitudes if people in a group are in sync and have a similar thought process, they can do wonders.
Her dedication is constant and undying, and she is prominently involved in the daily operations building strategies. She single-handedly looks after all the dynamics of her food venture.
In her early teens, she commenced portraying her ingenious side in the form of colors and paintings, drawing her conceptions from the canvas of life into colors. Shama Rashid didn’t take her marriage as a final destination like most of the women in Pakistani society, starting her own Interior designing business with her husband she put her creative trait in the business and doing it great for the last 19 years.
Shama shares her insights on how anyone can create the life they want even if they’ve opted to work in a traditionally low-paying creative field. All you need are floor-to-ceiling business smarts, a modern mindset, and wall-to-wall confidence.
Exploring her hidden traits, it was her urge that brings her to the cooking and home chef industry and then there is not stop for her to date. From winning multiple live cooking contests to various TV morning shows including the most famous Nadia Khan Morning Show, she showed a vigorous character of Pakistani women who can do and achieve anything with their aptitude and will to do. Recently appointed as Honorary Director & Advisor to WIO Women Global Award Academy, Shama Rashid is setting an example to all women of our society that they can be and they could achieve anything they want.
The contribution of women in the home base food and restaurant industry has been immense, yet not been truly recognized as much. These women’s foodpreneurs serve as an inspiration for all the aspiring female entrepreneurs and chefs and encourage them to make a mark in the space on their own.
