City Fresh Foods

Just about a year ago, we started having problems with our then pizza supplier.  After the third strike – it was time to find someone new.   We told our schools that we wanted the students to help us choose the new pizza supplier.    Word got out and we had a number of businesses vying for the slot.  My logistics manager who happened to be a baker in his native land Cape Verde, told me” I’d like to supply the pizza, but I need to use the City Fresh kitchen.”  After a cross eyed look, I  saw he was serious.

There were 5 companies vying for the business, our logistics manager who would eventually name his company One Nation was one of them.  Each Friday for five consecutive weeks we sent a new pizza for the students to try.  At the end of the test period, they were to vote on which they considered the best.  One Nation beat out the competition, among the students and among our staff it was hands down the best pizza made.

Now every weekend, at the City Fresh kitchen our Logistics Manager leads his team in creating some really good pizza.  The dough is made from scratch, baked, sauced and cheesed. The finished product is blast chilled and then frozen.  Later that week, on pizza day City Fresh bakes the pizza and delivers it to the students fresh from our ovens.  In so doing, $85,000 in annualized expenditures that would have left our neighborhood, now stays and our eaters are blessed with an amazing meal.   This is one of the unintentional consequences of operating a pioneering community business.  One I wouldn’t trade off for anything.

-Glynn

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