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Jacob Kremple

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462 total appearances

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And his son, TJ, is our owner now and CEO.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And he's been running the company since then.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

Yeah, we sell just about anybody, right?

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

But I think we've made our bread and butter as this, I know I listened to your Cisco episode, right?

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And broadliners that you were talking about on that podcast.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

We view ourselves as a highliner.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

So we're going to carry a wide assortment.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

We carry everything from meat and dairy to produce, which is what we had our start in.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And that's our wheelhouse for sure.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

But we have experts in all of those areas.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And our job is to build a curated assortment of maybe 7,500 SKUs versus a Cisco carrying 20,000 plus.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

So the merchants on my team, they just have this insatiable appetite to go out and find the best produce, the best meat that they possibly can to fit whatever that customer's need is, whether it is something that's more commodity based, like a basic romaine to high specialty variety tomatoes, like some of the ones that I brought

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

Yeah, so we're about 70 percent, maybe a little bit more in restaurants.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And there we service everything from the Michelin star partners that we have, that we have a lot of long existing relationships with some of the top chefs in the areas that we serve to your local bodegas or bagel shops as well.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

Yeah.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

So you go to boutorfood.com, right?

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And you go onto our website.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And from there, you can see our full assortment.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

And then once you sign up as a customer, then you're able to see pricing and availability and some of those things to make the decisions of what you possibly want to buy.

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Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

We also have our sales reps that are partnering with a specific set amount of accounts that bring that white glove service, right?