The Exchanges

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Q and end up in a product. You guys found out about it. Nobody saw metal in their chomps, but, but it was a possibility, and you had to recall just tons and tons of products, which I imagine was a really, was a low point for you guys last year. Can you talk a little bit about just how that, you know, like, just how you kind of handled that?

A It was amazing. One of the hardest, um, times in the business, really just figuring out how to react. And I'll say it was an isolated incident, exactly to what you said. We did an internal investigation and identified one of our seven facilities on one packaging line at an evening shift on a Friday where something seemed off. So to avoid any risk, we expanded the scope quite significantly and did a, a, a, Pretty large-scale recall. It was painful. Like, it felt like the world was ending, even though it was so isolated. I mean, like, at the end of the day, Chomps is mine and Pete's baby. We started this from nothing, and it's here because of our consumers. So you think about, like, the potential risk of Chomps putting any of our consumers at risk. We were not going to do that. So we went through the process, and in the end, we didn't find any metal, right? There was no adverse reactions. Thankfully, no one got hurt. We got through it, and, um, It was tough. Like I always say when I tell the team, one recall is one too many, right? It just, it's not acceptable. We can be better. We have to have processes. We have to have controls in place. But now I can say with, with complete confidence that we have handled it. We've got through it. And I think like the organization infrastructure is far stronger because we, we did say like we can get tighter here, here, and here. And now we hav…

AI assessment note: “We did an internal investigation and identified one of our seven facilities”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q And you studied business in college, and I guess, like, around 2012, when you met Pete, I guess you were working as a, as a consultant. How, how exactly did the, did the two of you meet?

A Yeah, so some of my, College friends, their wives were friends with Steph, Pete's wife, and I think, yeah, so there, there was a, Pete makes a joke, it's like, I think we went to a few, like, group dinners, and me and him didn't really click, we were just like, you know, it was just the guy across the table, I don't think we interacted much, um, but then a couple months later, there was, there was a birthday party where some friends, and we were all playing poker, and ironically enough, me and Steph, his wife, made it It was down to the two of us because he was going to win the tournament, and at one point, I think she threatened to push me down the stairs if I beat her. I don't recall exactly who won, but Pete and I, at some point, were just kind of off to the side, and we're chatting, and he was telling me about This business that he had started, and, and so what he was presenting was a more convenient solution to get grass-fed beef.

AI assessment note: “College friends, their wives were friends with Steph, Pete's wife”

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