First Bite

Reed McCord joined me on #TitansOfFoodservice to talk his company, First Bite, and how they are bringing data in to the foodservice industry. 🎧 Listen here and please make sure to leave my channel a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!: ------------- Titans of Foodservice Website: https://lnkd.in/gAHK6jtU Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gKeDJaX2 Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gybUCiRE Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gPADFwkr Be a Guest: nick.portillo@portillosales.com

Another #TitanOfFoodservice joined me on last week's episode, Reed McCord, CEO & Founder of First Bite! We talk about how his company is bringing more data to the foodservice industry and the impact it is having on companies who are leveraging it to get closer to the operator and make more informed decisions. 🎧 Listen here and please make sure to leave my channel a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!: ------------- Titans of Foodservice Website: https://lnkd.in/gAHK6jtU Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gKeDJaX2 Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gybUCiRE Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gPADFwkr Be a Guest: nick.portillo@portillosales.com

Another #TitanOfFoodservice joined me on last week's episode, Reed McCord, CEO & Founder of First Bite! We talk about how his company is bringing more data to the foodservice industry and the impact it is having on companies who are leveraging it to get closer to the operator and make more informed decisions. 🎧 Listen here and please make sure to leave my channel a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!: ------------- Titans of Foodservice Website: https://lnkd.in/gAHK6jtU Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gKeDJaX2 Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gybUCiRE Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gPADFwkr Be a Guest: nick.portillo@portillosales.com

Exciting News! 🌟 The First Bite team is gearing up for the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, May 18-21. Looking to boost your foodservice sales? Let's connect! DM one of us to schedule a chat: Reed, Cameron, Colleen, or Christian.

After a little over a year since we started, the First Bite team finally had its first real all-hands yesterday. I expected it to be a little triumphant. We have a lot to be proud of. We pulled off a clean double in Q1 (2x revenue, 2x team, 2x customers, 3x+ active users!). I didn’t expect an all-hands zoom meeting would be emotional, but seeing everyone in a room was surprisingly emotional for me. I presented slides about our past, present and future. We discussed how we could work together to build a high performing culture. Every single person on the team spoke up, pushed and challenged, asked questions, offered insight and listened to each other. When we got to culture, one of our engineers recited… “without that friction produced by contact with others, how would you ever lose those corners, those edges and projections..” and I thought, "ok, we have ourselves a team”, and it just got better from there! I have never seen a team form this quickly. I feel lucky to work with folks that can throw no look passes to each other and trust each other to get it done. I’m so grateful for this group of humans and so excited about our potential. 

First Bite leverages sophisticated analytics to identify high-traffic restaurants. When our users target and close high-traffic locations, these restaurants tend to buy more, churn less, and expand over time. Discover how to transform your lead generation strategy: firstbite.io

Need to target the right accounts efficiently? With First Bite you can harness the power of keyword-rich restaurant menus nationwide to help you pinpoint relevant leads. See how our unique menu keyword search elevates your sales: firstbite.io

Whether you’re launching in a new city, or you’re looking for new target partners in a specific neighborhood, we’re here to save you time and effort in your search. It takes less than 30 seconds to find the top-rated coffee shops within 5 miles of Venice Beach. Learn more about First Bite here: https://www.firstbite.io/

"Selling into foodservice is tough." This sentiment, one that I'm all too familiar with, led me to my new role. -It takes so much time to identify and list ideal customer restaurants. -It takes hours to find the decision maker, generate contact info, reach out, follow up, and get a response. -It's hard to measure each salesperson's performance and forecast attributed volume. I heard about what Reed McCord was building and decided to reach out. From his 10+ years at Impossible, he can attest that the blackbox of foodservice information is a real problem. On that we've already begun solving in a useful, scalable way for our customers. First Bite is a comprehensive foodservice database with intelligent vertical sales tools. We're reducing the time and cost to acquire new foodservice accounts by up to 98%. My favorite part? CPG's can plug their product attributes and learned performance into our predictive model. It uses menu, chain, geographic, and traffic data to generate confident demand forecasts to prevent underproduction (lost sales) or overproduction (waste). Honored to be the first sales hire at First Bite and to help brands grow more efficiently in foodservice. Please reach out if you'd like to learn more! Excited for this next chapter. https://www.firstbite.io/ #cpg

Just in time for Expo West, I just released a new podcast with Reed McCord about the early days of Impossible Foods and his latest startup First Bite, which has built a platform to help small-to-large CPGs identify and sell to the right foodservice partners. In the era of expensive D2C and retail channels, foodservice can be a more profitable channel that offers organic marketing when the right partnerships are formed. Like Salesforce and HubSpot have done for other businesses, First Bite offers prospecting, forecasting, and tracking tools that are purpose-built for the foodservice industry with a database of over one million restaurants and 140 million searchable menu items. This ensures that sales teams are spending their resources on the right prospective partners that can help validate the market before scaling into retail or wider foodservice deals. Check out the full episode on all major podcasting platforms 🎧 👇 https://lnkd.in/gRDTHJAJ #foodservice #foodserviceindustry #cpgbrands #cpg #cpgmarketing #foodtech #expowest #expowest2024 #altprotein