//This entrepreneur is competing with DoorDash — by delivering only from Black-owned restaurants

This entrepreneur is competing with DoorDash — by delivering only from Black-owned restaurants

David and Aaron Cabello. | Courtesy of Black and Mobile

2020 has been one heck of a year to be a young, Black-owned small business.

David Cabello’s business was barely a year old when the pandemic struck. He’s the founder of Black and Mobile, the self-proclaimed first Black-owned food delivery service in the country to exclusively deliver for Black-owned restaurants. At times, he says, the pandemic and the protests have made him feel like a character in A Tale of Two Cities. His business has quite literally experienced, as Dickens put it, the best of times and the worst of times.

On one hand, the pandemic brought a level of disruption that made it difficult for any small business to survive, let alone expand, as Cabello was in the process of doing when Covid-19 brought many industries to a halt. And the pandemic hit