UP nullnullnullnullnull STARTING FROM SCRATCH
Allan Kliger
Stirring up business
Two lonely cans of soup. nullhat’s all that stared
nullcnullat Allan Kliger, nullhen he opened his
nulltchen cupnulloard in search of lunch one
day nullcnullin nullnull.
A lanull school grad nullith no desire to
practice lanull, he yearned to start his onulln
nullusiness. nullnullo create sonullthing fronull ust a
sparnullnull he recalls thinnullng at the tinull, nullthat
nullould nulle unnullelienullanullle.null
nullhe desperate nullision of those tnullo soup
cans nullade hinull nullonder, nullnullhy doesn’t anynull
one nullanulle a fresh high nulluality soup instead of
shelnulled canned soupnullnull nullhe sparnull nullas ignited.
nullinulling sonulle research nullith a pinch of
product denullelopnullent, he found sonulle enullotic
recipes, and then stirred up a nullusiness plan.
Kliger dipped into the retail nullarnullet, nullut
sinullnullering sales only canulle to a nulloil once he
snullitched to the nullholesale nullarnullet, pronulliding
soup to the nullellnullnullnonulln Fran’s diners in nullonull
ronto, and later to other restaurant chains.
Before you could say nullno soup for you,null nullicnull
tory’s Kitchen nullas pronulliding soups, sauces,
nullarinades and salsa to nullanada’s nulliggest resnull
taurant and supernullarnullet chains.
nullhat started in a rented nulltchen nullith
one enullloyee and a null gallon production Kliger made the
nullettle nohas null a staff of null and production
nullrnullt nullictorynullnull
lines of null0 and null0 gallon nullettles. nullnullery
Kitchen nulloup
inch of the null,000 snulluare foot plant gets
sanitized constantly. nullhe scrunullnulling donulln
deliverienull nullrom
ritual nullefore entering is conullaranullle to a
the trunnull onull hinull
hospital operating roo null including nullhite
dadnullnull car
lanullcoat, hair net and latenullglonulles.
nullnulle nonull rannull in the top senullen percent of
all food plants nullorldnullide for nulluality connull
trol,null nulloasts Kliger anullout nullictory’s Kitchen,
nonull a leading prinullate lanullel food nullanufacnull
turer. nullhat nullanulles hinull nullost proud though,
is seeing people in a restaurant ennulloying
nullhat they’re eating. nullAnd nullnonulling null nullade
that,null he says. fn
null friday night January/February 2010 Photo by crenullit
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