Every client pays an initial $3,000 deposit for 10 hours of research and development.
Jenny Rosoff tries to be realistic with her clients. “This is not a high-profit industry,” she said. But some of her pandemic clients have managed to see some success in a relatively short period of time.David Strong’s day job came to a screeching halt last March. His menswear line, Monadic, had just launched when the pandemic hit, and retailers were forced to close for a time before entering a cycle of limited reopening and closing.
He has been able to get his hot sauce in clothing stores and barbershops, in addition to traditional supermarkets. “All those components — beautiful sauce, beautiful bottle, engaging branding,” said Strong. “I just wanted to make something that was, you know, for lack of a better term, really beautiful.”Strong now has a monthly standing order for 40 to 80 gallons of his sauce — 240 to 500 bottles — from Village Green Foods.