Meet the Team.
Family owned. Family run.
PhoLicious is not a faceless food company. These are the people behind every bowl, the family that crossed an ocean with a recipe and built a national brand without ever changing it.
Anh Trousdale
I’m Anh. Cooking and entrepreneurship are my two great passions, and the pandemic turned my nursing career into this dream. With family as the priority, we sold our home, left our jobs, and invested everything in PhoLicious. Crafting an authentic recipe was challenging, but we persisted. Today I run production, food safety, and R&D, which means the recipe answers to me.
Joseph Trousdale
After 17 years in hospitality, I ended my career as a hotel general manager to focus full time on PhoLicious. Who would have thought we would be here today? I am in business with my wife, which is a blessing, I get to work alongside my best friend daily. The skills from 17 years in hospitality, leadership, business development, marketing, sales, and problem solving, are exactly what building this company takes.
Mamma Thu & Pappa Le
We are the proud parents of PhoLicious co-founder Anh Trousdale. Our journey began in Vietnam, and in the late 1980s, when Anh was just 6 years old, we left everything behind in search of freedom and a better life. We survived pirate attacks before finding refuge in the United States. We have held tightly to our Vietnamese heritage and the recipes that kept our family connected to home. The broth you taste today is the flavor of our family’s history, perfected over decades.
And the Crew That Makes It Happen.
Behind the family is a growing Houston team running production, packing, and shipping, the people who turn one family’s recipe into truckloads of bowls without letting a single one slip on quality. Small team, national footprint, same standard.
Now Meet the Bowl.
You know the people. The bowl is in 5,000+ stores, or four minutes from your pantry.