Jacob Kremple
SVP Procurement & Merchandising, Baldor (food-service distributor)
“Baldor is a 30 year old food service distribution company based up in the Hunts Point Market area of the Bronx. We distribute food from Maine to Northern Virginia. Send out about 500 trucks a day with food mostly to food service restaurants — about 70% restaurants, 30% independent retail or other wholesalers.”
“About 70% of fresh tomatoes are grown in Mexico now, 30% in the US. If you go back pre-NAFTA, right around when NAFTA started, that was completely reversed — the globalization of produce.”
Jacob Kremple
One-line summary: Procurement/merchandising exec at Baldor, a NYC-area food-service distributor; primary-source voice on fresh-produce supply chains, US-Mexico tomato sourcing, and produce-price inflation.
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On food-service-distributor-passthrough-share-shift:
"Baldor is a 30 year old food service distribution company based up in the Hunts Point Market area of the Bronx. We distribute food from Maine to Northern Virginia. Send out about 500 trucks a day with food mostly to food service restaurants — about 70% restaurants, 30% independent retail or other wholesalers." — 2026-06-11-podcast-odd-lots-why-tomatoes-are-the-most-expensive-they-ve-been (2026-06-11)
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On food-service-distributor-passthrough-share-shift, iran-fuel-shock-consumer-bifurcation:
"About 70% of fresh tomatoes are grown in Mexico now, 30% in the US. If you go back pre-NAFTA, right around when NAFTA started, that was completely reversed — the globalization of produce." — 2026-06-11-podcast-odd-lots-why-tomatoes-are-the-most-expensive-they-ve-been (2026-06-11)
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