TRAVERSE CITY — A locally-based food distributor that’s been a trailblazer in growing Northwest Michigan’s local food network will shut down in mid-November.
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But they’re working hard to meet the ever-changing demand.
Scott Hermann is the Director of Operations for Tamarack Holdings and Cherry Capital Foods. He says it’s a waiting game. “We rely on what’s coming out of the state in terms of opening and the opening status.”
Cherry Capital Foods is a food distributor of Michigan-made-and-grown products and is based in Traverse City. Wendy Becker is the VP of Sales and Marketing. She says, “The extension was not a surprise to anyone… (restaurants) have really been taking a day by day approach to the whole situation. Almost to a customer, they were saying ‘we anticipate it will be extended.’” She says even though the plan was to reopen on Friday, the expectation of a possible delay meant restaurants weren’t stocking up. “It’s not like there was an onslaught of orders that had to be pulled back.”