Adventures in running a web-based food business
I am so excited that our retail signs are in. It’s more like a billboard on the side of the shop, with visibility a quarter mile down Elliott Ave! They still need to put in lights and raised letters and signs on the other two sides of the building … but the big sign is …
On Tuesday we officially christened the Marx Foods retail store with a Friends & Family party. It was great to show everyone our new shop! Outside Looking In: Inside Looking Out: Of course, we aren’t just starting a new retail endeavor, we’re launching about a hundred new products! We had 35-40 of them out for …
It’s been a busy week around here, thanks to some great reviews: Seattle Magazine’s Allison Scheff wrote a nice roundup of some of our new products. Anyone who mentions Allison’s story while in the shop will be invited into our test kitchen to sample all of the items that she wrote about. The Queen Anne View …
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We are so excited to get this specialty shop open. We’ve given a couple journalists a sneek peak and two three great stories just went live. Hanna Raskin’s (@hannaraskin) Seattle Weekly article has some great coverage of how we’ve found all our new specialties. When she asked me whether I thought that Seattle artisans would be upset …
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Our retail roots are online, so our Seattle retail concept was dreamed through a digital lens. It’s being implemented that way too. Our retail shop will have a home page and a masthead and interactivity. In that spirit, we endeavored: to leverage all of the content we have built over 5 years; to integrate technology …
Yup. It’s finally happening. 18 months of planning. We have tasted thousands of products. We have endlessly brainstormed how to integrate our online presence and digital content into a classic retail environment. We are having a ton of fun trying to take it to the next level, especially since cocktails are de rigeur for tastings. But, it’s …
Having Autumn in the kitchen with her patterned aprons, pink-streaked hair and adorable nature made this past year of photo shoots a blast (not to mention she is extremely talented chef). Here she is saying good bye with a kobe tomahawk steak for her chupacabras. Sadly for us, she is leaving not only us, but the …
We have about 2 months to add over 130 new items to our store. A tall order, I know…so we’d love your recommendations. Any great local goods in your area? Hidden gems that deserve national spotlight? Throw some ideas our way! We’ve done 2 rounds of product tasting this summer and we’ve added roughly 55 …
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Ryan, our photographer/graphic designer, took a trip to Olsen Farms, growers of our heirloom potatoes, to document the early stages of the 2012 harvest. Meet Brent Olsen. He and his mother Merna produce our truly exceptional heirloom potatoes. The Olsens’ potato farm starts about Puls Kassen-. Etwas und – http://amandasalas.com/cialis-und-schmerzmittel ihrer künstliche ich vorher meine …
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First we were in the July issue of Food & Wine magazine, then I had my TV debut with King 5, and now Marx Foods is all over the friendly skies! Lori Stacy, the delightful editor of Celebrated Living magazine, wrote a piece on us in the quarterly publication of American Airlines’ First Class cabin. …
A winter holiday party isn’t enough for us. My staff is so awesome (and we’ve recently had a lot of reasons to celebrate), that a summer picnic was in order. This year, I went all out with an epic feast and a day of games, boating and day-drunkery. Even though the weather wasn’t quite as …
I had my first TV appearance yesterday! The cast and crew at King 5 New Day Northwest were so great to work with and I had an absolute blast. I’m so grateful for the experience and honored they invited me to be a part of their show…here’s to hoping they invite me back 😉 Big …