It’s a good time to be in the specialty foods business. Retail sales in the United States were worth over $85 billion in 2014 and, overall, $42 billion in sales came from mainstream stores like Target or Costco. Some of these specialty foods can be found in stores from Alaska to West Virginia. Others never make it farther than their local farmers market. But there’s one thing they all have in common — they were started by real people who had an idea for a business and made it happen.
