My husband and I are in the planning stages of a new food business venture and need to develop contacts with reps for food service distributors in the Hudson Valley NY area.
Do any of you have reps that you could recommend to us?
Specifically, we need to buy IQF (individually quick frozen) fruit-cherries, blueberries, apples, strawberries, raspberries, mango chunks etc.
We also need to contact fresh produce suppliers and dairy suppliers.
Since neither of us have dealt with food service suppliers since we moved from NC we don't have contacts with reputable representatives of these companies.
In NC, where we were both chefs, we knew who were the good reps and who were not and obviously, threw our business to the ones who were most helpful and consistently supplied the best products and services. Here we are lambs in the woods.
I'd really appreciate any advice from chefs in the area.
We are about 55 miles directly north of Manhattan on the Hudson River-15 miles south of Poughkeepsie.
Do any of you have reps that you could recommend to us?
Specifically, we need to buy IQF (individually quick frozen) fruit-cherries, blueberries, apples, strawberries, raspberries, mango chunks etc.
We also need to contact fresh produce suppliers and dairy suppliers.
Since neither of us have dealt with food service suppliers since we moved from NC we don't have contacts with reputable representatives of these companies.
In NC, where we were both chefs, we knew who were the good reps and who were not and obviously, threw our business to the ones who were most helpful and consistently supplied the best products and services. Here we are lambs in the woods.
I'd really appreciate any advice from chefs in the area.
We are about 55 miles directly north of Manhattan on the Hudson River-15 miles south of Poughkeepsie.
