{"id":220,"date":"2014-10-06T00:47:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T05:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divfood.wpengine.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2021-03-04T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:48:24","slug":"diversified-foods-seasonings-featured-in-delaney-report-on-page-3-monday-october-6-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/diversified-foods-seasonings-featured-in-delaney-report-on-page-3-monday-october-6-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversified Foods &#038; Seasonings featured in Delaney Report on Page 3 &#8211; Monday, October 6, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Diversifying<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandeville, LA \u2013 based&nbsp;<strong>Diversified Foods &amp; Seasonings<\/strong>&nbsp;is expanding its business base. DF&amp;S manufactures food\/seasonings products for the food service industry and fast food companies (products include red beans, sausages, biscuit mixes, soups, BBQ sauces, grits, etc.). The privately-held company is jumping into the retail distribution arena with the introduction of a line of frozen entrees for the consumer called Chefs Creations that will capitalize on Louisiana\u2019s Cajun food heritage (Jambalaya, Gumbo, Chili Mac &amp; Cheese, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They are Creole-inspired recipes. People are looking for flavor and heat. They will be restaurant quality,\u201d said President\/CEO\u00a0<strong>Peter Smith<\/strong>. DF&amp;S jumps into 1600\u00a0<strong>Kroger\u00a0<\/strong>stores in 24 states and plans to move into other stores and geography. The plan: to use Chefs to move into other food categories. &#8220;The strategy is to use it as an umbrella. We\u2019ll sub-brand and do it around the country. There could be New England Classics,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/delaneyreport10-06-2014.pdf\" class=\"rank-math-link\">View PDF Version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversifying Mandeville, LA \u2013 based&nbsp;Diversified Foods &amp; Seasonings&nbsp;is expanding its business base. DF&amp;S manufactures food\/seasonings products for the food service industry and fast food companies (products include red beans, sausages, biscuit mixes, soups, BBQ sauces, grits, etc.). The privately-held company is jumping into the retail distribution arena with the introduction of a line of frozen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversified-foods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}