Bill Keith, co-founder of Perfect Snacks, recalls an armed FDA inspection and 500 tests conducted following a nationwide recall during Christmas 2014.
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Perfect Snacks Founder's Father Mixed Untested Supplements in Backyard Barrels
“He would use his organ meat tablets and protein and essential fat supplements. And just, you know, these are all things by the way, mixed up in barrels in our backyard. You know, these are not lab tested.”
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Founders Were Down to $1,000 Before Launching Perfect Snacks
“And when we were faced with this really devastating point where our father had gotten severely sick our outlook was very grim. We had less than a thousand dollars, a 3500 dollar mortgage that we were behind two months on, and we needed a way to quickly raise s…”
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Perfect Snacks Generated $30,000 During 30-Day Berkeley Whole Foods Test
“30,000 dollars worth of sales in those 30 days.”
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Perfect Snacks Spent Roughly $500,000 Building First Commercial Kitchen
“It was into the half a million dollar range, which back then is, it was enormous. And that was being cheap. That was taking a lot of shortcuts.”
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Founders Funded Perfect Snacks With $100,000 From Selling Family Motel
“My job was to get this motel ready to sell because there was no way that we could run this place and try to get whatever equity we could out of it. And then we found a buyer that would be willing to give us cash and we had a 100,000 in equity.”
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Protein Bar Co-Packer Minimums Were 50,000 Bars in 2005
“So I researched co-packers out, and the co-packing minimums were so large, because we're talking about 50,000 bar minimum, which back then, I mean, that would have been everything.”