
Area firm’s USDA app connects farmers and food buyers

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Read More →After 26 years, Margie’s Diner chain keeps trucking along

Meet Margie Johnson, the woman behind one of the most successful restaurant enterprises in the region.
Read More →Dole buys natural snack company
Dole Food Co. has bought Mrs. May’s Naturals, a family-run company that makes natural snacks such as fruit-and-nut bars and freeze-dried fruit. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Westlake Village-based Dole said Mrs. May’s had 2011 revenues of about $16 million. Mrs. Mays was founded in 2002 by brothers Augustine and Michael Kim, Read More →
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A niche on the shelf: Specialty food companies thrive

Two of the Tri-Counties’ quirkiest food producers are proving that bigger isn’t necessarily better.
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Healthy and growing: B.R.A.T drink gears up for national expansion

B.R.A.T, a “feel better” drink based in San Luis Obispo, is seeing sales and distribution grow.
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