Hello everyone and welcome to Freckled Foodie and Friends, a podcast focused on

making healthy living approachable hosted by yours truly Cameron Rogers.

Hey people before we get to today's episode.

This was recorded like I now feel so long ago

It was recorded in like the last week of February. I think so before everything COVID-19 happened, when quarantine went into effect, I was like, oh, I'll just put this episode on hold.

And, you know, in three weeks, when quarantine quarantine's over I'll release it and three months

later here we are so I didn't want to sit on it anymore or any longer so I am

releasing it now with the pretext that obviously this was not recorded in person in New York.

And I also want to just provide a small tidbit from WANJ regarding what local routes has done since the

COVID-19 pandemic. So when the city started to show signs of shutting down, they made the

decision to continue operations

because getting produce to the people is as important as a part of their mission.

In 48 hours they change their business model from 95% of their customers picking up at a local roots pop-up

market which we'll talk about in this episode to post-pandemic where 90% of

their customers opted for delivery. So to put it into perspective,

only about 50 of their customers used to opt for delivery and now they're doing

about like just over a thousand per week. So in those 48 hours, Wen J and one of the other employees learned

routing software, converted all of their customers to delivery and hired and trained

ten times more staff, which was mainly made up of formerly laid off restaurant

workers due to the shutdown.

So if you are in New York right now, you can subscribe for their summer harvest at local roots NYC.com and

either opt for contactless delivery in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens or

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