Pink Sauce creator Chef Pii has started a GoFundMe and made $906, claiming she has been ‘financially sabotaged’
“As a young entrepreneur with big dreams, I followed my intuition and went forth toward my dreams to create something new,” she says. “I made a few mistakes on the way. Which led me to trust a company that is trying to take everything away from me. They lied to me.”
Shaw said she is a single mom and she cannot afford food or clothing for her children.
“I am currently facing an eviction that has gone into default the sheriffs can come to my door any day now. I need legal help,” she said. “They are refusing to pay me the royalty that is owed to me. I don’t know what else to do. I can’t give up.”
Shaw found popularity with The Pink Sauce in 2022. Videos of her sauce gained millions of views on TikTok, according to the Los Angeles Times. Shaw was a private chef in Miami when she started selling the sauce, whose main ingredients include honey, chili, garlic, sunflower seed oil and dragon fruit.
“The next time I think of an amazing product, I will have a structured backing before I go live with it,” she told AfroTech. “I expressed this to the youth and then also other entrepreneurs and the mistakes that I’ve made. Just taking that time to look at steps one, two, and three because you may not know what the future is gonna be like.”
Shaw partnered with Dave’s Gourmet to bring an updated version of The Pink Sauce to Walmart.
Pink Sauce creator says she lives on “$20 a day”
In her GoFundMe, Shaw claims that Dave’s Gourmet “are not paying me and are not being transparent about records” of their business arrangement.
Shaw’s GoFundMe fundraiser is set at $10,000 — but thus far, she’s only raised just over $900. Some users are even roasting her in the page’s comments.
“Karma sucks huh?” one person wrote after donating $5. “Be humble.”
For their part, Dave’s Gourmet says it disagrees with Shaw’s version of events. They also claim they stuck to the terms of their agreement.
“We disagree with Ms. Shaw’s allegations,” the company said in a statement, adding that it “adhered to the terms of the agreement with Ms. Shaw.”
