Red Robot Hot Sauce Added to ZestFest 2014 List of Awesome Products!

My name is Eric Borland and I am the co-owner of a gourmet hot sauce company called Red Robot Hot Sauce.  We just joined your blog for the Zest Fest and are looking forward to January, our first year participating as a vendor at the festival.  

We make a roasted, red jalapeno-based sauce using all natural ingredients.  We really concentrate on making a sauce with a great mixture of flavor and heat and our growth as a company over a short period of time shows that people love it as much as we do!  We are currently in 22 retail locations around the Atlanta-area as well as 2 restaurants and a couple specialty food websites.

It all started about 2 and a half years ago when a bumper crop of jalapeno peppers in our small, backyard garden resulted in so many we couldn't give them all away.  My business partner and friend from childhood, Mike Van Dorn, and I started tinkering with making hot sauce.  After a few months of toying around with different recipes, we finally found one that we both thought nailed it.  We sold out of everything we brought to our first festival and both decided to turn our hobby into our small business.  

After a year of getting through the certifications, process approvals, roadblocks and learning experiences along the way we were finally ready to legally sell to the public in November 2012.  In just a year, we've grown quickly, adding customers on a weekly basis.  With our production now handled by a co-packer, we are able to focus our time on sales.  The Zest Fest is going to be a great opportunity for us to meet and talk with key distributors, producers and customers.  Again, we are really looking forward to the festival and I love the blog about the festival to get the hype started!  Thanks again.

Best Regards,

Eric Borland
Co-Owner
Red Robot Foods

redrobothotsauce@gmail.com

www.redrobothotsauce.com