Dr. Otis W. Baskin of The Family Business Consulting Group Inc., answers questions from the specialty food trade in this recurring online feature. This month he tackles topics such as family businesses surviving fraud by a family member, handling varying risk comfort levels, and appropriate ...

Just like the other key relationships in our lives, how we choose to interact with time can affect how happy, productive and balanced we are. Ari Weinzweig shares four tips for learning to appreciate and manage time.

This specialty retailer in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is a packed feast for food-loving locals and visitors to the country’s oldest racetrack.

When cooking enthusiast Myra Sable met Toronto chef Carol Rosenfeld, they developed a bond—and soon a business—over family recipes. Forty years later, Sable & Rosenfeld has grown into one of Canada’s most successful privately owned gourmet food companies and an award-winning brand, offering mustards, bruschetta, ...

Founded by Eli Zabar, this 20,000-square-foot food emporium has been a New York City institution since it opened on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1998. Inspired by the food halls of Europe, the two-floor storespecializes in gourmet prepared foods, fresh fish, aged meat and cheeses, ...

A neighborhood natural foods market, café and deli, City Feed and Supply, Jamaica Plain, Mass., pursues retailing as more than just an exchange of high-quality goods. Rather, the retailer looks at it as a way to build relationships, strengthen ties and support communities by integrating ...

When college buddies Dave Bennett and Mike Stone went into business, their mission was simple: bring natural foods into a larger market. Since opening its doors more than two decades ago, the original Mollie Stone’s Market has expanded to nine locations in the Bay Area, ...

Caviar & Bananas, located in downtown Charleston, S.C., may take its aesthetic cues from New York City’s elite specialty food markets with its sleek, sophisticated space, but its wide-ranging, hard-to-find product mix—from, well, caviar to bananas—and made-from-scratch offerings put this market in a class by ...

With three locations in the Windy City and a booming Artisan Producer Festival at Chicago’s French Market, this 8-year-old business has grown tenfold since opening in 2004. For its second food festival in April 2012, the cheese shop hosted 70 producers and 8,000 food lovers ...

From a neighborhood storefront and cafe to a 20,000-square-foot gourmet emporium to a nine-store natural and specialty supermarket chain, this year’s award recipients are all honored for excellence in premium service, product sourcing, quality assurance and culinary and retailing passion. by Nicole Potenza Denis and ...

Combining her husband’s pâté-making heritage with her own sales and business acumen, Laurie Groezinger Cummins, president of Groezinger Provisions/Alexian Pâtés and Specialty Meats, and her late husband created an award-winning company offering 25 varieties of pâtés and mousses as well as whole-muscle meats and kielbasa. ...

Snacks made with creative and healthful ingredients are giving the ubiquitous potato a run for its money.

Michael Thompson joined Venus Wafers in 2008 as president to share his expertise from a 30-year career in specialty foods. Today, the family-owned cracker company has expanded its line to six brands in 24 flavors. Here, Thompson talks about his influence on the brand and ...

This year-old Baltimore grocery and café has found success thanks to an ideal mix of customers and a clear-cut mission: to support local, sustainable and high-quality foods.