The year was 1972. The place? Morgan City, Louisiana. Jim Gossen, who sold his company to US food distributor Sysco last week, started his business with the purchase of a truck.
“Basically I would leave on a Sunday afternoon, get down to New Orleans and pick up products: red beans, oysters and red snapper – a bunch of Lousiana products at the time – then I would come back,” Gossen told IntraFish. "I would get back on Monday night. I would sleep in the truck or trailer, then I’d unload it and deliver it.”
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