Jennifer So

Coming Up

Working in a Mexican restaurant inside a gas station in Port Orange, Florida, gave Jennifer So an early read on service under pressure: limited setting, real demand, no room for drift. The job required pace, consistency, and a practical feel for how to make food carry weight in a place that offered none of the usual cues of destination dining. That grounding carries into La Diva Mexican Kitchen, where So’s role as founder marks the move from execution to authorship. The shift from chef to founder is a common one in restaurant work, but it only holds if the operator can translate experience into a clear point of view and keep it intact as the business takes shape. Since 2022, So has also been a business partner of Pizzeria Sei in Los Angeles. In that role, the work is less about the pass and more about the structure around the room: identity, operations, and the decisions that define how the business is read from the outside.

Where They Are Now

At Pizzeria Sei in Los Angeles, Jennifer So’s business partner role is the public-facing expression of a career built across different kinds of restaurant labor. The thread running through it is not spectacle but continuity: a chef’s discipline, a founder’s ownership, and a partner’s responsibility to the shape of the business. The record here is straightforward. So has moved from working kitchen to restaurant ownership and partnership without changing the core requirement of the work: make decisions that hold up under service, and build something durable enough to keep its identity over time.

Career - Founder — La Diva Mexican Kitchen - Business partner — Pizzeria Sei, Los Angeles, California (2022–present) - Chef — Mexican restaurant in a gas station, Port Orange, Florida

FAQ What is Jennifer So's current role? Jennifer So is Business Partner. Where did Jennifer So work before? Earlier in their career, Jennifer So worked at Mexican restaurant in a gas station.