Dear Colleagues:
Here is your chance to make a contribution to the specialty food industry. Simply send in your review of one or both of two new books about the specialty food trade.

We will also publish reviews and commentary of the two new books in future issues of Food Entrepreneur Magazine.

The two books are:

1. Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business. By Mimi Shotland Fix, Self Counsel Press, August 2009. Windows CD-ROM.
“Whether you have always dreamed of owning a home-based f… Continue

Hi,

Here is just one comment from an exhibitor at this week's Fancy Food Show:

"The show was a spectacular success. We have 183 leads, and about 45 are URGENT, with promises of immediate business attached. It’s never quite that simple. But we’re holding what we think are very good, new possibilities."

I determined, much to my chagrin, that Indian tribes are immune from suits. UNLESS you can get them to sign a contract that has language waiving that immunity.

There is a lot of settled law on this issue; however, there are really no remedies for a vendor/supplier or anyone doing business with Indians without the waiver.

The unfortunate aspect is the lack of due process that results when the tribe invokes its sovereign immunity. In other words, you are screwed!

Whether you are consulting or p… Continue

Here is a recent email exchange with an editor-in-chief of a major food trade publication: "The point I was trying to make is that it would not benefit us at all, from a business standpoint, to sponsor your publication. We have a controlled circulation and are not trying to drum up new subscribers. Does that make sense?"

This was in response to an inquiry I made about the possibility of either sponsoring an edition of our online magazine, and/or writing an article about the growing trends in pr… Continue

This is from the July issue of Wired Magazine:

ELEMENT - SCARCITY ABUNDANCE
Rules: Everything is forbidden. Everything is permitted,
unless it is permitted. Unless it is forbidden.

Social Model - Paternalism Egalitarianism
("We know what's best") ("You know what's best.")

Profit Plan - Business model=We'll figure it out

Decision Process - Top-down, Bottom-up

Organizational Command & control - Out of control

I am on the side of abundance, yet I think the organizational structure is stra… Continue