Organic salads find local favour
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
In addition to the retail market, Ladybird Organics is supplying its salad mix range to the food service market, where restaurateurs are keen to fulfil the growing consumer trend toward healthier lifestyles.
Like retail, the food service range is delivered in fully bio-degradable packaging.
Keilor Hotel’s Robyn Rogers confirms that Ladybird
Organics salads have been added to the menu in the Galway Arms Restaurant. She says, “Apart from supporting another
local business, this move lets us give our customers what they are looking for.
We see the trend towards healthier, sustainable living and many people enjoy
having healthier choices when ordering meals out. Having a year-round supplier of organic
products means we can be confident in changing our menu.”
Ladybird Organics Director, Steve Skopilianos, Steve
points out that the availability of product year-round is an important
consideration for food service clientele. “In Keilor, the temperate climate
means we can grow these salads year-round, every week of the year. Our
customers, both retail and food service, can be confident that the product will
be in consistent supply..”
Leo Defina of Caffé Dolce in Keilor Village
is another local restaurateur to put Ladybird Organics on the menu. “We didn’t
hesitate to make this change. We can see the big future in organic foods and
this is a first step for us in offering our customers healthier alternatives.
The slightly higher product cost is well worth the added quality and freshness.
And we know it’s healthier and grown just up the road. We love to have local
produce on the menu.”
Ladybird Organics represents a new generation of farming
that takes the issues of well-being and environmental sustainability very
seriously. Like every package that
leaves the farm, Steve Skopilianos envisages all Ladybird Organics’ operations
to be not just world’s best practice, but clean and green “from the inside
out.”