Meet the Makers
Executive Chef Glenn Lozuke and Director of Kitchen Operations Martha Lopez at the Weaver Street Market Food House with the new Good Bowls flavors
Our mission at Good Bowls is to build a stronger local food system that supports North Carolina farmers, employs local producers, and provides people here in the community with access to healthy, delicious food. For the past few years we’ve been working hard to build a strong food infrastructure that sources from dozens of local farms and provides thousands of North Carolinians across the state with nutritious meals.
To help us accomplish all this, we partner with Weaver Street Market, the leading co-op in the Triangle area. We produce all of our Good Bowls at The Food House, their 20,000 square foot kitchen in Hillsborough, NC. We’ve been spending quite a lot of time at The Food House this year since we’re launching 6 new flavors throughout the summer.
The Good Bowls production team at the Weaver Street Food House
Glenn Lozuke, the Executive Chef at Weaver Street helped us convert small family-size recipes into meals that can be made on an industrial level in a commercial kitchen, putting out thousands of bowls in a week. Martha Lopez, the Director of Kitchen Operations created the Good Bowls production process so that all the local produce can be ordered from local farms in time to produce 1,000 Farmhouse Mac n Cheese Bowls one week and then 1,000 Carolina Chicken BBQ Bowls the very next week. Glenn and Martha work side by side to make sure the complicated process of simultaneously producing all the different elements of the Bowls happens exactly on time so that your Good Bowl can get sealed up, frozen, stacked on a pallet, and be ready for the Good Bowls van.
The Good Bowls production team making a batch of Caribbean Jerk Chicken Bowls
We’ve worked hard the last couple years to put all of this infrastructure in place - the local farm network, the production kitchen, the distribution points, and a crowd of hungry Good Bowls fans. In the coming year we are looking to add new farmers to our network, install some automation in our kitchen, and build more distribution markets throughout the state. This will ensure that we can produce enough Good Bowls at the Food House to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for healthy frozen meals that taste great and come in a wide variety of flavors. In the process we’ll also continue to grow the local economy by employing dozens of local people to process local NC farm food and keep everything North Carolina Local.
