Norcal Prime Foods is a small family run business in Concord, California. The business offers home delivery service, and they carry all organic meats, poultry, seafood, and organic vegetables. All their food is individually wrapped and can be delivered to your front door.
NorCal Prime Foods distributes their homemade salsa, hummus, guacamole, and chips to the local grocery stores like Raley’s in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and Rohnert Park.
NorCal Prime Foods also supplies an online company called Farm Fresh To You with products that can be ordered online and delivered to your home the next day. The company has been in business for almost 18 years and is continuing to grow.
Being a small business, they were worried when the coronavirus pandemic began about how their small business would hold up. Being an essential company, they continue to supply their customers and grocery stores with their products.
Having under 20 employees delivering, packaging, and making their products, the last couple of weeks have been some of the busiest weeks they have had since being in business. With the current shelter in place, business owner Mitchel Campos said, “Many people don’t want to go to the grocery stores to get essential products, so the direct home drop off that Norcal Prime Foods offers is a perfect way to get your essential needs without leaving your home.”
Staying open hasn’t been an easy thing for the small business, with the overwhelming amount of orders and shipments that are being placed daily. Being a small business, they have the machines and equipment that have helped them produce what they typically distribute out, but now with the large orders they are receiving, they don’t have the equipment to produce as fast and efficiently as they normally do.
Campos said, “As grocery stores are being emptied daily by shoppers, we are trying to keep produce in stock at all times to make sure there is product on the shelves and our customers will never go without their essential needs and product.” He continued, “Being a family run business our loyalty is to our customers and making sure our local community is taken care of.”
The family and employees have come together and continue to work long hours to make sure they satisfy their orders and take in the many new clients and grocery stores that have requested their products over the last few weeks. Their work brings nutrition to families’ tables during the crisis and strengthens the local supply chain.
Campos said, “In times like this it can get overwhelming and scary being an owner and knowing that my business can be shut down, and there would be no way I could financially save it, but I am grateful to still be running and receiving many new customers and grocery stores to supply is exciting and keeps small family businesses prospering.”
