Pink Sauce creator starts GoFundMe after going completely broke Instagram: chef.piiPink Sauce creator Veronica Shaw has started a GoFundMe, saying she\u2019s completely broke and was \u201cfinancially sabotaged\u201d by Dave\u2019s Gourmet after putting her sauce on the market in 2022. Veronica Shaw, aka \u2018Chef Pii,\u2019 went viral in 2022 thanks to her brightly-colored condiment called \u201cpink sauce.\u201d Shaw quickly saw the opportunity to take her product to the next level and started selling the sauce out of her home. This was a move highly criticized by customers, some of whom complained their sauce had spoiled in the summer heat, among other issues. Despite the controversy surrounding Pink Sauce, Dave\u2019s Gourmet soon picked up the viral dressing later that year and found itself on shelves in retailers like Walmart. However, this money move didn\u2019t seem to pay off for Shaw, who recently started a GoFundMe page, saying she\u2019s financially destitute after partnering with Dave\u2019s Gourmet. Pink Sauce creator says she lives on \u201c$20 a day\u201d In her GoFundMe, Shaw claims that Dave\u2019s Gourmet \u201care not paying me and are not being transparent about records\u201d of their business arrangement. \u201cAs a young entrepreneur with big dreams, I followed my intuition and went forth toward my dreams to create something new,\u201d she says. \u201cI 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.\u201d \u201cI have been silenced and financially sabotaged,\u201d she added. \u201cI am a single mom and I do everything for my kids. Right now, I don\u2019t even have enough money to buy my kids food on my own. My mom is on disability and has been giving us $20 just to get by on a daily basis.\u201d Shaw\u2019s GoFundMe fundraiser is set at $100,000 \u2014 but thus far, she\u2019s only raised just over $900. Some users are even roasting her in the page\u2019s comments. \u201cKarma sucks huh?\u201d one person wrote after donating $5. \u201cBe humble.\u201d Dave\u2019s Gourmet says it\u2019s paid Pink Sauce creator over $120k For their part, Dave\u2019s Gourmet says it disagrees with Shaw\u2019s version of events. They also claim they stuck to the terms of their agreement and say they\u2019ve paid the Pink Sauce creator over $120,000 thus far. \u201cDave\u2019s Gourmet has adhered to the terms of the agreement with Ms. Shaw,\u201d they said in a statement shared with Dexerto. \u201cWe disagree with Ms. Shaw\u2019s allegations. Dave\u2019s Gourmet has paid Chef Pii over $120,000 to date and it continues to make all payments as due and on time based upon the terms of the contract.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve offered to reimburse Ms. Shaw for her lawyer\u2019s time to go over the terms of the agreement and how it relates to the payments that were made to Ms. Shaw. She indicated that she\u2019s open to an amicable resolution of the dispute and the parties are in discussions.\u201d This latest news follows sightings of Pink Sauce on the clearance aisle in Walmart earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pink Sauce creator starts GoFundMe after going completely broke Instagram: chef.piiPink Sauce creator Veronica Shaw has started a GoFundMe, saying she\u2019s completely broke and was \u201cfinancially sabotaged\u201d by Dave\u2019s Gourmet after putting her sauce on the market in 2022. Veronica Shaw, aka \u2018Chef Pii,\u2019 went viral in 2022 thanks to her brightly-colored condiment called \u201cpink […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}