Chef Chew

GW Chew, aka Chef Chew, is the Founder & CEO of Something Better Foods Inc. and has been a vegan food inventor/restaurateur for over 13 years. Adopted at birth into a family with the last name “Chew,” GW believes that he was born with a mission, born with a purpose, and born to change lives one chew at a time. 

Chef Chew grew up in the “country” in a family of very heavy meat eaters and noticed over time that a lot of different diseases, from diabetes to cancer, plagued the members of his family.  Understanding that a lot of those same diseases have been linked to poor diet and overconsumption of animal meat products, Chef Chew switched to a plant-based diet in 2001 and started experimenting with creating vegan food products in 2004. He painstakingly invented the Better Chew proteins in his mom’s kitchen and has perfected the textures and taste over the past 15 years.  As a result, Chef Chew has been able to create scalable plant-based solutions for grocery and foodservice that will also help existing brands innovate within their current portfolio.

He is also the founder of The Veg Hub, a non-profit vegan restaurant in Oakland that provides ethnic-inspired plant-based foods to a food desert community. They also provide cooking classes and other educational services to the Oakland Bay Area in nutrition and wellness!