by Jeff Slater | Sep 13, 2026 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People
How Steve Push and Legacy Food Group are Rewriting the Rules of Private Equity in Foodservice Every independent foodservice distributor eventually faces the same question. What happens when the founder is ready to step back? For decades, the answer has usually been...
by Jeff Slater | Sep 7, 2026 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice
A few months ago I stood in front of a hot sauce wall at a specialty grocer near me and counted. Forty-one bottles. Forty-one. Ghost pepper. Habanero. Carolina Reaper. Fermented jalapeƱo. A skull on the label here, a flame on the label there, a guy in sunglasses...
by Jeff Slater | Aug 30, 2026 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice
Early in my career, I was the one walking into a buyer’s office with samples in a cooler bag and a pitch deck I’d rewritten four times the night before. Later, I spent years advising founders on how to survive that same meeting. I have talked with enough...