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- From: SaladG AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:26:07 EDT
Mark a few years ago I started to call on restaurants and talking to their
main chefs, and salad chefs and ask them if there was anything we could grow for
them that they wanted to put on their customers plates. We have a few
restaurants that we sell to year around and one school system plus our one
Saturday Farmers Market, and I really don't want any more work. We are
going to do some cutting for next year and it will be Farmers Market
items.
To sell wholesale you have to be competitive with our competition but you
don't have to be cheaper with fresh product, just very good quality. You
will have to have a good personal Liability policy of at least 2 million and 5
is better. It is not that expensive but do a lot of shopping, there are
prices all over the place.
Get to know the chef's and show them what you have and they will buy good
clean fresh produce. I make deliveries on Thursday's and I call on chef's
on Tuesdays to drum up new business, other than that we use a regular order
unless notified different. Make sure they have your email address, I have
chef's drop me emails at night after they close up at night. Had a chef for one
of our accounts give me an order for lamb for next month for a special event
dinner, quite large order by the way, and all I did was reply to his email to
confirm the order that I could fill it for him. I really like this
system.
Phil from Iowa
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales
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- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, E C GRANATA, 08/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
Brigette Leach, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Laurie Allen, 08/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
Jay Sleichter, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Sweet Valley Organics, 08/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
Richard Robinson, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Road's End Farm, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Pamela Crowe, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Richard Stewart, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Marcy, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, SaladG, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, clearviewfarm, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, SaladG, 08/20/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
clearviewfarm, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Laurie Allen, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, idyllwild farm, 08/20/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
KAKerby, 08/21/2010
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[Market-farming] Inventory Systems for Produce,
Dalew Farms, 08/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Inventory Systems for Produce,
John and Katy Ehrlich, 08/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Inventory Systems for Produce,
Richard Stewart, 08/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Inventory Systems for Produce, John and Katy Ehrlich, 08/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Inventory Systems for Produce,
Richard Stewart, 08/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Inventory Systems for Produce,
John and Katy Ehrlich, 08/22/2010
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[Market-farming] Inventory Systems for Produce,
Dalew Farms, 08/22/2010
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