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Old June 9, 2015   #2
Worth1
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I had a guy years ago that told me him and his brother would buy every tomato I grew.
He owned a Italian deli and his brother owned a high end place in Austin.
Both of these guys were like old school Italians like you see on TV.
I didn't see the guy at the deli for 10 years and I walked in one day and he said.
"You $%&^ &^$% where have you been I have work for you and need tomatoes.

To get back to your question.
You can grow enough tomatoes to over run the place with tomatoes for a few days.
You have one garden and one restaurant.
You will flood the place with tomatoes and then you wont have any.
The place still needs tomatoes.
What the farmer needs to do is find a bunch of places to sell to or one middle man to sell to.
This middle man can then worry about selling the tomatoes.

This is how the canned Rotel tomato company came about.
They had too many tomatoes to sell and started canning them and then selling the canned tomatoes with peppers in them.

What does your restaurant do with the tomatoes?
Do they make their own sauce if so they will need a lot.

I doubt if they do though.

If I owned a restaurant I wouldn't buy limited local tomatoes to make sauce.
Here is why, my sauce needs to be the same from one batch to the other.
But I could advertize that the local tomato season is in and we have heirloom tomato sauce while the season lasts.

What I would do is buy local tomatoes to eat fresh in salads and advertize this as specials.

Just a few thoughts I am no expert.

Worth
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