Jacob Kremple

It's this give and take relationship.

We both have to win.

Negotiations and joint partnerships really are win-win.

And that's really what my team's job is, is to find a way to make sure things are a win-win and we're providing as much value for our end customer as possible by making sure that our suppliers are well taken care of as well.

Price is irrelevant.

Yeah, I think when tomato prices are high, any of these prices are high, what I would tell any average retail consumer is, like, go outside your comfort zone.

There's so much good varietal produce out there, whether it's in your local farmer's market or even in your grocery store now.

I'd say mass availability, if you're looking for something in the store, Sunset Master Nardi Flavor Bombs.

Incredible.

They've got a line of bombs.

There are four or five different varieties that they grow.

Yeah, they're flat little clamshells almost like these berries are, right?

And usually still on the vine.

Those are incredible.

And some of the top restaurants in New York are using them for like pasta sauce and different things like that.

It is a main ingredient because the flavor profile on those is just so perfect.

I'd say for our restaurant consumer or somebody that's not in retail, it's these Girl and Doug tomatoes that I brought for you guys.

These varieties that they have in this medley are 100% grown for flavor.

So Aaron, his parents had a floral shop.

They retired, bought a produce farm, of all things, and he sort of took it over after a while and started growing some of the craziest cool varieties of anything, whether it was microgreens to tomatoes to whatever, to sell to chefs.