From meat and seafood to plant-based proteins, Rastelli’s supplies premium proteins to fine hotels, restaurants, institutions, and retail markets. They also operate their own retail locations, processing facilities, warehouses, and distribution centers. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, hotels and restaurants that were some of Rastelli’s key customers shut their doors and kitchens. But at the same time, consumers opened their pantries and freezers to stock up on the staples they needed to prepare meals at home. As stay-at-home orders spread across the country in early 2020, consumers were hungry for a source of high-quality proteins delivered safely and reliably to their homes. COVID-19 had made grocery shopping risky and had disrupted food supply chains, so even consumers who did

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