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Responded to the request by fellow listmates to contact Starbucks and  
galvanize our efforts. Spent quite a while with the guy on the other  
end who was extremely interested in any information I could provide.

He indicated that they currently use regional bakers who provide  
their baked goods as outside vendors and imdicated comcerms about how  
to bypass cross contamination. I suggested that  Foods by George  
could be a potentially  elegantly solution - at least within their  
shipping radius which I understand far exceeds the greater New York  
area. The benefit to our community would be brand recognition as well  
as a verifiable and wide gluten free product line. I also mentioned  
Kinnikinnick, Glutino and Glutano as widely accepted brand names.

We also discussed the GF menus at Outback Steakhouse and PF Chang's  
for them to look at as a model as they are considering opening up a  
wider variety of products to the GF community. It appears that our  
collective voices are finally being heard - and certainly it must  
have something to do with the fact that we are a new market segment  
which could generate lots of revenue!

Let's keep up the momenteum as Panera Bread has no interest in our  
needs!!! I would love everyone to contact them as well and maybe get  
the same result.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Laurencia

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