Dave's Gourmet, Inc.

How I Disrupted The Hot Sauce Industry [Sold In Over 8,000 Stores]

Dave Hirschkop
1
Founders
4
Employees
Dave's Gourmet, Inc.
from San Rafael, CA, USA
started February 1993
1
Founders
4
Employees
market size
$196B
starting costs
$13.7K
gross margin
40%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
content-library
best tools
Instagram, Twitter, Constant Contact
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
35 Pros & Cons
tips
2 Tips
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Hi, my name is Dave Hirschkop and I am the founder of Dave’s Gourmet and creator of Dave’s Insanity Sauce and many other products. Dave’s Gourmet is a premium pasta and hot sauce company that is a 28-year-old overnight success.

In our first year, we were banned by the National Fiery Food Show and became a media darling with the New York Times and many other media outlets eventually calling me “legendary” in the hot sauce world.

We actually sell more pasta sauce than hot sauce currently and have our sauce sitting in millions of pantries and refrigerators. The number of funny and amazing consumer letters, stories, and videos numbers in the tens of thousands. These vary from people showing how hot they can take it to fraternity and military initiation rituals with our sauce to incredible gourmet recipes using our products.

You can find us in over 8,000 stores including Whole Foods, Wal-mart, Costco, Safeway/Albertsons, Kroger, Sprouts, Wegmans, The Fresh Market, Amazon, and so many other incredible retailers.

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