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  • From: Lucy Goodman-Owsley <goodows AT excite.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Why I Like Selling to Resturants
  • Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 06:12:55 -0700 (PDT)


This past week we picked up 2 more returant accounts to make 3 we are now
selling to.

Selling to chefs is great they will pay high prices (though I usually give
them a 10% to 15% break for buying large quantities over our retail farm
market prices) and they love the food. Last Tuesday I could see them
literally salivating over the food. And that the best part (perhaps I like
this because I spent 15 years cooking in fine dining facilities) is when
they tell you how they will use you stuff and how wonderful it is. I almost
never hear this at the farmer's markets, though the CSA folks sometimes tell
us what they will make.

We do have one flakey chef who sometimes is mysterioulsy closed but now that
we have other accounts he may lose out-this being closed happened last
Tuesday which got us the 3rd account because we still had food and drove by
the place on a lark.

Another great thing about resturants is it is quick in and quick out.
farmer's markets you get to sit around for hours and you may make no money
or you may make a lot of money but there is no telling. With returants you
know ahead of time that they will be buying and what.

Just my 2 dollars worth of thought.

Lucy Goodman-Owsley
Boulder Belt CSA
New Paris, OH
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  • Why I Like Selling to Resturants, Lucy Goodman-Owsley, 05/12/2000

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