Martha Hoover was featured in Indianapolis Monthly's 2025 list of 50 over 50, where "Every single person in this handpicked group proves it’s never too late to shine". 

“I have always possessed an unwillingness to believe that failure is a real potential,” says Cafe Patachou founder Hoover. That attitude explains why the former attorney with the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office ignored the fact that Indianapolis was dominated by chain restaurants when she opened her first spot in 1989, kicking off a Midwestern revolution. Since then, she’s turned her attention toward juvenile food insecurity, launching the nonprofit Patachou Foundation in 2013 (she remains board president). This year, she left the business she built and launched the M.S.H. Collective, a mentorship system for women business owners.