Welcome to the Food and Beverage Group!

[AdamB]

Welcome to the group and hello! 👋

This group exists for those in the food and beverage industry to connect, share ideas, and help support each other with unique knowledge and insight.

No need to be shy - say hi and introduce yourself! Talk about your business, tell us a cool customer story, or about the awesome service and products you serve to your customers!

Second, feel free to use images and gifs, animated or otherwise. Everyone loves food and drink pics!

And lastly, thank you for visiting and for joining! We’re really happy to have you here and to hear from you! 

To join the group, visit the Food and Beverage Group homepage and click on the Join Group Hub button on the top right.

[GourmetOnWheels]

I found them online on my Mac and then I moved them via Airdrop to my iPhone

René

[belmonddrivein]

Thanks for inviting us to the group!

we are a tiny establishment serving ice cream, Burgers, Tenderloins(won best in Iowa 2015), appetizers, and daily specials.

hows everyone faring with appetizer shortages?

always looking for great special ideas!

[Tamyra_Paunchy]

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for the invite, Adam. Looking forward to seeing all the exciting posts/topics in the group. I own a small food and beverage company in the Seattle area called Paunchy Elephant. We make bottled organic teas, lemonades, and barbecue sauce. Yep! You read that right... because our family is from the South and some of the best days involve family, friends, and a little sweet tea/lemonade while you wait for the grill master to do their thing. Nice to e-meet you all. 🙂 Cheers!

[MamiesToffee]

Southern BBQ? What part of the south? We are always interested in different drinks that people can’t get in your local store.

[Tamyra_Paunchy]

Hi! Yes, our family is from the South (New Orleans). The sauce is closest to a Kansas-City style, sweet, ketchup-based barbecue sauce. The classic that we make is on the sweeter side and sticks really well to pretty much anything from meat to veggies. We also make a gluten-free version of the sauce and now a maple habanero that's less sweet but has a spicy kick to it.

Sure! Happy to share more info on the beverages with you too. What area are you in? I can even ship a few samples to you if you'd like. We love fun/unique flavor combinations like vanilla green tea. I doubt anyone at your local stores has green apple lemonade either. haha. But we do! Feel free to email me. I'm at tamyra@paunchyelephant.com. 

[Kimj14]

Hello there everyone and Adam I thank you so much for the invite looking forward to the conversation and support.

[larissa166]

Hello from Phoenix, Arizona. My husband and I own All About The ‘Booch, Maricopa County’s first permitted kombucha microbrewery. We are going on 3.5 years. We sell direct to consumers (home delivery, farmers markets, and events) and wholesale. Our next goal is opening a kombucha tap room. Oh… and we both still work full time! 🤯 We have lots of help from our family. 

allaboutthebooch.com 

[allwhowander]

Awesome! How exciting to plan a tap room! Kombucha is amazing and it’s super versatile at a bar as well - for cocktails/mocktails or a great N/A alternative. Just curious - have you ever considered making an alcoholic version? Not sure what the production regulations are in Arizona to make that happen, but I can tell you as a craft beer pub we are begging to get an alcoholic version on draft for our gluten free customers, or guests that just don’t drink beer. There’s a huge hole in the market in New York.

[larissa166]

Hi! It’s hard enough to stay under the ABV limit. Maybe we’ll play with higher ABV kombucha later. But if we do it, we are going high. No 1-3% for us. 🤪

[TheServSafeGuru]

How awesome!

I  would love to connect with you all although I am in the Atlanta area and will be opening a community farmers market next spring  with about 30 farmers on board.

[soniap]

That’s wonderful! All the best. I’m in Atlanta too! Where are you planning on opening the farmers market? 

Sincerely,

Sonia 

[MamiesToffee]

Hello Adam and members of the food industry. My wife I own Mamie’s Toffee and Treats, Oswego, IL. We recently bought a shuttle bus as we have done tent set up for years. We are a mobile concession in spring to fall and winter we go indoors for craft shows. Check out our site at www.mamiestoffee.com. Looking forward to some great content and suggestions. 

[chefanie85]

Hello, and thanks for the invite.  I love the idea of getting to know other small business owners in the food industry.

I own and operate an at-home bakery in the Oklahoma City area. I offer pies, cakes, cookies, cheesecake, brownies, etc. to my customers.  As well as custom cakes for birthdays & weddings. 🍰

We've been open for about 2 years now, and are seeing a lot more growth this year than expected. I still have a full time job as well, so the growth has been nice but also stressful.  I'm super excited to be heading into the holiday season.  It's always so fun to help people celebrate.

https://chefanieshomebakery.com/

[robinbelleville]

Hello, and thank you for the invite.  Seasonal soft serve ice cream/froyo/sandwich/snack shop in Ohio (finished 10th season as the boss a few days ago).  Looking forward to feedback from Square and enhancements based on our suggestions (please let us know via a push notice that a register is in offline mode; would make my life significantly less stressed).   www.bgsfrostyfare.com

[coffeemom]

Thanks for the invite 🙂 I own a specialty coffee bar/cafe in Sarasota, Florida. We've been at it since 2011 --started as a home-based bakery, then brick and mortar bakery and now a full cafe. nice to meet ya'll!

[Rizzo]

What do you bake? I own a pizza place in Alachua and we have a small refrigerated case where we keep desserts. Some we purchase, some we bake ourselves. Had considered expanding into more baked goods as we don't have a good bakery here in town, unless you count Publix, but I did say good. 😁 Would really love to offer bagels,but my only attempt at making bagels did not go well. 

[vinelady804]

Hi, we own Lacey Estates Winery in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.  We are a small craft winery being run by myself and my husband.  We produce small batches of hand crafted wines from our vineyard.  Square has made it possible to run our business during covid. 

[racestreetcoffe]

Hey Gang,

Aaron over here, Race Street Coffee in Fort Worth, TX.

Opened in Nov 2019, hope everyone is weathering this pandemic as well as possible.

 

[bonafidefood]

😊Thank you for the Invite- since we started Bonafide Foodtruck and Catering Company in 2017 we have loved using Square and watching the tools it offers grow! Excited to see the questions and answers that come out of the seller community. We are located in Sheridan Wyoming- we have won 2 Food Network awards and been featured on 3 different TV shows, in our first 5 years of operation- surviving the pandemic was difficult - but we just keep pivoting and are now doing as well as we were in 2019. Hope to hear more from ya'll. You can find us on Insta @bonafidefoodlove

[bonafidefood]

guest ordering from the truck

[shumble]

Hello from Roberts Ferry! We're a gourmet food manufacturer and retailer with two brick and mortars and 4 websites (2 of which are Weebly/Square).

robertsferrygourmet.com (in-store pickup & delivery sites Weebly powered). 

We use an inventory system, DEAR, as the hub of our manufacturing and sales and need help with sync issues we see regularly. If anyone else is using DEAR we'd love to chat.

Stacey