Pasta, Coffee, and a cold Storehouse

Hi Everyone,
The girls and I went on three tours this week. Carla’s Pasta, Omar Coffee, and Sysco in that order. Touring Carla’s pasta was a nice experience. While at Carla’s, our tour guide kept stressing how they maintained a clean facility and they sure did. It was almost O.C.D. how clean the place was, in fact they had a third shift that is only designated for cleaning. It was comforting to know that they cared so much about the quality of their product. The tour was short but educational at the same time. The girls and I got to see everything from how the pasta is cooked to how it is packaged. At the end of the tour, we were introduced to Carla and I was a little happy about that. We wrapped up our tour at Carla’s Past with a little Q&A and some free samples and we know those are always good.  Omar Coffee was next and the tour was nice too, What was really interesting about Omar was how the coffee settled on everything in the factory. Some people may think it needs to be cleaned but I call it art. I didn’t know that coffee had to be handpicked, Can someone say labor intensive! Not to mention the amount of work that goes into roasting coffee to the right color, I think I have a new found appreciation for the drink. All in all, the tour was nice and once again the free sample wasn’t bad either. Sysco was an entirely different experience, the place was HUGE. With the amount of volume they stored and to have such a low error rate was impressive. We wrapped up out tour at Sysco in the test kitchen and were on our way. It was nice of Eric to introduce us to that aspect of foodservice and it was well appreciated. Bye for now.

Mahalia