Bi-Rite Market
{{Short description|Grocery store in San Francisco, California}}
{{distinguish|text=South San Francisco's BiRite Foodservice Distributors}}
File:Bi-Rite Market, 18th St in 2008.jpg
Bi-Rite Market is a grocery store in San Francisco, California, owned and operated by chef Sam Mogannam, who had previously worked at Jardinière in the city. He and his brother Raphael Mogannam took over the grocery store from his family in 1997, and began to sell prepared foods using locally grown produce, which they advocate for.[http://www.sfgate.com/recipes/article/Bi-Rite-Market-run-by-a-chef-Sam-Mogannam-4119833.php "Bi-Rite Market run by a chef, Sam Mogannam", San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2012][http://www.specialtyfood.com/news-trends/featured-articles/article/bi-rite-market/ "Bi-Rite Market", Speciality Food website profile, June 1, 2010][https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303830204577446631342936446 "Local Grocer Cultivates a Following, Looks to Grow", Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2012]
Background
Mogannam spoke at TEDxPresidio 2012 on reinventing capitalism.{{cite news |last=Lucchesi |first= Paolo |date=17 September 2012 |title=Watch Sam Mogannam of Bi-Rite talk food, community and panzanella parables |url=http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/09/17/watch-sam-mogannam-of-bi-rite-talk-food-community-and-panzanella-parables/ |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=23 October 2015}} Fast Company profiled him as one of the 100 most creative people in business for 2012.{{cite news |date=27 April 2012 |title=Most Creative People 2012 |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2012/sam-mogannam |newspaper=Fast Company |access-date=23 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124072553/http://www.fastcompany.com/most-creative-people/2012/sam-mogannam |archive-date=November 24, 2012 |url-status=dead }} The market runs a non-profit community food education project, 18 Reasons.{{cite news |last=Lucchesi |first=Paolo |date=10 June 2010 |title=A second Bi-Rite Market grows on Divisadero, and 18 Reasons getting a new Mission space, too |url=http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2010/06/10/a-bi-rite-market-grows-on-divis-and-18-reasons-getting-a-new-space-too/ |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=23 October 2015 }} The store is a pioneer in the new farm-to-grocery store movement, and has published a book, Eat Good Food (Ten Speed Press).[https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/11/bi-rite-market-pioneer-in-the-new-farm-to-grocery-store-movement/248674/ "Bi-Rite Market Pioneer in the New Farm-to-Grocery Store Movement", The Atlantic Monthly, November 2011]{{cite web |url=http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/12/08/kqeds-forum-bi-rite-markets-eat-good-food/ |title=KQED's Forum: Bi-Rite Market's 'Eat Good Food' |last1=Goodfriend |first1=Wendy |date=8 December 2011 |website=KQED.org |publisher=KQED |access-date=23 October 2015 }} Whole Foods Market has sent staff to the store to adopt practices from there.[http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/cornering-the-market-0 "Cornering the market", San Francisco Magazine, October 20, 2011] The store opened a second location, in the Divisadero Street Commercial District, in the Western Addition neighborhood, in 2013.{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Andrew S. |date=13 March 2013 |title=Bi-Rite cements Divisadero's star status |url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Bi-Rite-cements-Divisadero-s-star-status-4349658.php |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=23 October 2015 }}
Bi-Rite earned certification as a B Corporation in late 2015 for its contribution to developing a more sustainable and inclusive economy.{{cite web |title=Bi-Rite Market |url=https://bcorporation.net/directory/bi-rite-market |website=Certified B Corporation |access-date=23 May 2019}} In 2018, Bi-Rite was named a Best for Community World Honoree by B-Lab.{{cite web |title=Meet the 2018 Best For The World Honorees |url=https://bthechange.com/best-for-the-world-2018-all-honorees-f30a880f8ac0 |website=Medium |date=June 11, 2018 |publisher=B the Change |access-date=23 May 2019}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite web | last=Fineman | first=Julie Ann | title=Bi-Rite Market: A Sustainability Success Story | website=The Huffington Post | date=August 3, 2016 | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-Ann-Fineman/bi-rite-market-a-sustainability-success-story_b_10170194.html | access-date=August 8, 2016}}
External links
- {{official website|http://www.biritemarket.com/}}
- [http://www.biritemarket.com/contact-us/press/ Bi-Rite Market press coverage]
- [http://www.randomhouse.com/book/202545/bi-rite-markets-eat-good-food-by-sam-mogannam-and-dabney-gough Eat Good Food at Random House/Ten Speed Press website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHfpEe_W9qQ Sam Mogannam, speaker at TEDxPresidio 2012]
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Category:Companies based in San Francisco
Category:Food and drink in the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:1960s establishments in California
Category:Supermarkets based in California
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