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She priced her hot sauce for four years before she found the kitchen that made it work

Marisol Reyes ran the numbers eleven times. What changed was a Dartmouth church hall with a licensed kitchen and an empty Tuesday.

By Amelia Cormier

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“Once I could rent four hours on a Tuesday, the margin worked.”

Marisol Reyes — Reyes Hot Sauce

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Amelia Cormier

Food policy & small-batch production, Atlantic Canada

Amelia writes about licensing, food policy and the economics of small-batch production. She previously ran a licensed preserves business out of a shared kitchen in Lunenburg, which is where most of her reporting questions come from.

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