Kirsten Maitland
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jun
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You know, we couldn't get rid of that nagging feeling.
And we dove right in and opened a restaurant in Austin.
Wow.
Yeah.
Luckily, I'm very OCD about things.
This is where it pays off.
And we still do tests and R&D now.
We have someone who's dedicated to that.
He's been with us for six years now.
It's part of our DNA.
It's very important to us.
Even for our top-selling items, we still have tests going to see if we can improve them even more.
even if it's just by a margin.
So when we decided to launch Rebel Cheese, we hired a chef.
We were still both working full-time, and we worked with the chef for a year on, you know, doing our, you know, development and testing and coming up with these ideas.
And that's when our first cheeses were born, and we also defined our restaurant menu at that time, too.
And then when we opened the restaurant, we hired people on the team to continue that R&D.
We also brought in cheese scientists, collaborated with them.
We've learned a lot from the dairy industry and dairy experts who've been working in the dairy industry for decades.
We truly believed, because we've been vegan for a long time ourselves, that we needed to lean into that dairy expertise, including trying the cheese, giving us feedback on it, because we knew it had been too long for us to really know what good cheese tastes like anymore.
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