I attended the first Retail Ready training this past tuesday. The seminar was very informative about how to sell to resturants and grocery stores. Tim Woods from the University of Kentucky was the director of the trainings. He helped gather the information from buyers for the sellers. We had around 30 people attend the training and several people from OSU and ODA.
I helped organize the event and get the lunch order prepared. As well as registering people and providing nametags to people. The participants seemed to enjoy the seminar and with the survey sent around we will be able to track the companies and see there performance increase or decrease from attneding the trainings.
People from local grocery stores like Whole Foods spoke on an open panel as well as people who buy for restaurants like the head Chef at OSU spoke on a panel to sellers. It was good for the sellers to get one on one time with buyers in the business. Hopefully the trainings opened up some doors for small food businesses.
I will continue to registar and call people for the seminars coming up in the next couple weeks. We need to encourage the small businesses to attend the sessions.
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