For Mark (Par) Grandinetti and Doyle Converse, it was like déjà vu all over again. Since the 1990s, the two had worked at Western Country Pies, the Salt Lake City bakery that was their base for more than a decade before it shut down in 2004.
Rocky Mountain Pies Founder and President Mark “Par” Grandinetti has a simple business axiom that has served him well for more than 18 years in the pie industry: “Understand the rules and play to win.
It only makes sense that farmers should know a thing or two about growing cycles. However, most members of the Organic Valley Family of Farms cooperative are dairy farmers, so the annual “harvest” takes on a different meaning.
You could say that Don Bowden is a nonconformist. Or that - as a Texan - he simply chooses to do things a little differently.
In any case, when it came to creating his own guacamole company, Fresherized Foods, this former restaurateur eschewed traditional avocado processing steps involving heat, chemicals or preservatives.
First impressions sometimes can be a little misleading.
In the case of Good Wives, a nearly 30-year-old frozen hors d’oeuvres company in Lynn, Mass., the company’s name has nothing to do with submissive types serving their husbands.
Supply and demand - it’s the most fundamental of all economic principles.
But what if a company finds a demand with no supply? Well, if the company is anything like New York’s Really Cool Foods (RCF), it answers the demand itself.
Brett Favre a Jet? Although Wisconsinites weren’t able to control their football fortunes, there’s one Wisconsin-based company proving that it can control something of vital importance to food processors: the supply chain.
In the face of consumers’ food safety concerns, need for convenience and demand for high-quality products, one factor quite literally keeps refrigerated and frozen food processors - and their products - from falling short.