Foodservice for Thought · 2021-03-23 · 30 min
In today's episode, Karey and Justin are excited to talk with Josh Allen of Companion Baking. He is the owner and founder of a successful and growing company offering quality, custom bread programs for restaurants, stores and businesses since 1993. Companion Baking also owns and operates a Cafe. If you are in the St. Louis area...check it out. We discuss the pivot his company made during the pandemic and of course, we Fire the Board. Born and raised in St. Louis, MO, Allen was immersed in the food and baking industry from an early age. His great-grandfather founded Allen Foods, a well-known broadline food distributor with a large customer base across the Midwest. Allen spend much of his childhood delivering groceries to various foodservice operations, cleaning the freezers and sweeping the trucks for his family's business. In 1991, Allen earned his degree in American Studies from Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Following graduation, Allen remained in the Bay Area working for various artisan bakers and grocery stores including Whole Foods Market and the Oakville Grocery Co., where he gained valuable baking experience and learned what it took to operate a business.
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