Posted on 03/24/2010 12:34:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 03/24/2010 12:42:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Diego Bartolome just wanted to start a salsa business to help his mom after she lost her job. What the El Dorado County fourth-grader didn't expect was a crash course in red tape.
The 10-year-old co-founded a hot little salsa company, grossing $1,000 from his Diego's Awesome Salsa by December and landing accounts at grocery stores. The salsa boy also got a taste of the media spotlight, with a profile in The Bee and an appearance on Channel 31's "Good Day Sacramento."
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Its abitch when you have to play by the rules
Remember to wash the boogies off your hands kid.
Samples-keeping, independent testing of EACH BATCH, etc.etc,etc.
A friend tried this a year ago with homemade pies, and gave up because his time and profits were going in to regulation compliance and paperwork.
Your Gub’ment at work
It’s a rude awakening when you find out you are the property of the government.
Oh, good grief!
We need a government Foodcare program. We can’t afford to have people running around eating different things. People should be given food by the government, and only eat what they are told.
Can you even have a lemonade stand anymore? I don’t think so...
The big government types...along with their friends in Free Trade, Globalism, and Socialism....hate for any American to have any gumption to start a business.
The mom’s comment sure sums up Kalifornia.....
People should be free to buy their salsa from some filthy kid who brews it in old coffee cans in his mom’s basement, if that’s where they want to get their salsa from.
I think when you get to the point of having products in grocery stores consumers rightly expect a certain accountability.
A roadside stand, no.
We have had e coli outbreaks with various products. We need to be able to trace this stuff.
He will be required to purchase health insurance as well.
I know I looked at the whole “home bakery” concept. It was really a jungle of red tape. For the seasonal type of concept I was considering...it was worth it.
This isn’t about playing by the rules, for generations people have sold their homemade jams, jellies, preserves and other goods at fairs and farmers markets. We all know people who can items from theri garden and those people often have so much they have to give them away to friends, should they have to get a permit as well?
I’m not advocating extreme over-inspection, but, if we don’t have basic sanitary, storage and temperature standards enforced it’s all Mexico up here.
Food poisoning actually kills people.
was=wasn’t
If he's selling something other than lemonade, he's got to factor that in. Just part of the cost of doing business.
“People should be free to buy their salsa from some filthy kid who brews it in old coffee cans in his mom’s basement, if that’s where they want to get their salsa from.”
I agree, but it should be clear that it’s from there, not lined up all shiny on a grocery store shelf.
the article says he had accounts in grocery stores, not just swap meets and farmer’s markets.
It’s time you learned, kid.
You can’t be self reliant.
Give up. Go on the dole...
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