In a career move you don’t see every day, Martha Hoover went from being a sex crimes prosecutor to becoming a restaurant owner. In 1989, she founded Won’t Stop Hospitality in Indianapolis, a restaurant that’s credited with pioneering the farm-to-table culinary concept. Since then, she’s used her business to constantly improve the lives of its employees, customers, and the communities around them by building initiatives for financial literacy classes, an employee emergency relief fund, and similar programs. In 2013, she created the Patachou Foundation, which serves healthy meals to children in need; and she followed that up in 2021 with PataSchool an initiative aimed at making school cafeterias a healthier place for kids.
