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Jacob Kremple

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462 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

We want to make sure that you have somebody that you can call and pick up the phone and say, hey, I want to do a Caprese salad.

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

What do you think will work?

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

Yeah, or yes, yes, exactly.

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

We get mostly those calls, but also some of the innovation calls as well of like, I'm looking to do a Caprese, what would you suggest, right?

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

And so between that high touch white glove service that our sales teams provides, as well as our merchandising expertise and storytelling on the website that we love to do, we're really able to maybe bring that picture full circle a little bit better than maybe some others out there to really allow you to tell that story on your menu.

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

Yeah, that's a trade secret joke.

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

No, I'm kidding.

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

No, I think we want to meet the chef where they are, right?

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

And so we offer a wide variety of opportunities of how they might want to price with us, right?

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

Anything from daily pricing to weekly pricing to depending on the size of the restaurant chain, we will offer longer term contracts as well.

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

But I do think there is some...

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

push and play left in this industry of, you know, a chef wants to be able to price shop a little bit, right?

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

And so a lot of our customers, you know, our view is that we provide that value, not just in making sure that you have a good value on the price, but that our service is way above par, right?

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

We're going to deliver on time.

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

Our cutoffs are the latest that you can get from any distributor.

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

So if you're a chef in New York City at 11 o'clock at night, you can go on our website and still order product where most other competitors.

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

Depending on their account and their delivery time is early at 6 a.m.

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

Wow.

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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

This tomato pricing thing is unique as far as like how expensive it got.