Excerpts from the episode:
Host: Welcome to yet another enlightening episode of Coffee on the Couch, as we step into the heart of local innovation with our latest guest on Coffee on the Couch Podcast.
Join us as we explore the story behind a thriving community hub tucked away in the vibrant corners of Robinston.
However, their products can be found in small businesses nestled in Calais, Maine.
This episode is your backstage pass to discover the magic unfolding on the corner.
Host: Starting local, thinking global.
Host: On the Corner began as a sauce business and is now expanding its reach to more cities and towns in Maine.
How has this journey influenced your approach to business, and what motivates your expansion plans?
Jason: Our approach to business is we've always been a company in, I say we've always been a company, we've had a company back in Idaho where we lived for 20 years, and there as well as here we've always been "Give the customer a great product for a fair price."
Host: Your 13-year-old Jack is making a mark with his cookies inspired by his grandmother's recipes. How does this family tradition and connection to local roots play a role in the products you offer? And how do you balance tradition with innovation?
Jason: Well, so my, Jack's grandmother, my mom, um, where we were, she was the first generation in this country from the Eastern.
Host: Oh, okay.
Jason: Still had a lot of the traditions, a lot of the skills, the products, The things that they did.
When we moved here, He found her cookbook in the box of books that we have and has just kind of made that his own, just as many people did and still do when they have a cookbook. Well, now everybody uses their phones. But, when you had a cookbook, you know, you discover new recipes and they would write them in the back or whatever.
Jason: So he's discovering these recipes that were handwritten in the back of the books and, and that, so he's, he's, and then he's, he's, he will modify them, um, a little bit to suit his tastes, but the essence is still there.
<further explanation on Jason's mother's origins> "So she was born in this country. She was first generation. From Hungry. So Eastern Europe."
Jason: And you know, that rises and falls after New Year's.
A lot of this will fall off because everybody's going to go on their healthy food diets.
And by two weeks later, it'll all be back to normal again, because, well, yeah, pretty much people like bread, people like cookies.
Host: Oh, yeah, for sure.
Host: My mother-in-law makes homemade bread, and I gotta say I've kind of been spoiled on that because, at a lot of get-togethers, she'll make homemade bread.
And man, when you go from homemade, like when you go from store-bought bread to homemade bread, the density, the flavor, just, yeah.
Jason: There's no comparison there.
Host: No, sure isn't.
Sure isn't.
Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onthecornersauces
Email: onthecornersauces@gmail.com
Personal brand links:
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553209952340
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