Sugar Land - Missouri City Edition | March 2025

Dining

BY ASIA ARMOUR

Crayton earned a brand deal and the title of 2024 Restaurant Royalty from Pepsi’s Dig In program.

The #1 Sauce Boss Combo ($25.25) includes 10 wings, two sides and two dipping sauces.

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Owner to make Sienna Wings a million dollar brand

Tyla Simone Crayton started her business while still a sophomore in high school.

Tyla Simone Crayton was just 16 years old when she started her business, Sienna Wings. After earning a brand deal with PepsiCo, and just months away from graduating college, Crayton now sets her sights on growing the Sienna Wings brand into a million dollar company, she said. How it started Sienna Wings opened at grocery store Harvest Market Sienna in Missouri City in summer 2023, Crayton said, but it grew from a home-based business which started in 2017. The eatery sells wing combos, sides and signature sauces. Respecting the craft When Crayton returns to work at Sienna Wings

full time in September after graduating, she will do pop-ups at HEB multiple times a week, she said. The inspiration Crayton said she learned the discipline and condence it takes to own a business by watch- ing her mom—who, as a single parent, moved herself and Crayton from New York to Houston in 2005. “I learned a lot of grit and grind and resilience from my mother and just watching her get through a lot of things,” Crayton said. “When you’re raised like that ... you just don’t have the luxury to play around—especially being Black, and being a Black woman. ... It’s like, failure is never really a choice.”

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