Whole Foods approached Luke's Lobster to absorb surplus restaurant inventory
Ben Conniff · How I Built Resilience: Luke Holden and Ben Conniff of Luke's Lobster · Sep 3, 2020 · at 7:23
Ben Conniff, co-founder of Luke's Lobster, explains how the company rapidly expanded its grocery retail presence during early pandemic lockdowns.
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“They were actually eager to help us move more seafood, and they came to us and asked how they could actually buy more lobster, and how they could, you know, put inventory we would have sent to our restaurants into their seafood case, or into an innovative product like a lobster cake, and so the first step was improving our grocery business and growing it.”
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