Culinary Connections: Research Chefs Speak Out at Reser’s Fine Foods, Part 1

Reser's Fine Foods Chefs Sean Dwigans and Todd Ketterman

Chef Sean Dwigans, Culinary Business Development Manager (left), and Chef Todd Ketterman, Culinary Manager, of Reser's Fine Foods.

How do corporate chefs influence new product innovation? Prepared Foods profiles refrigerated foods giant Reser’s Fine Foods, Beaverton, Ore., and interviews Chef Sean Dwigans, Culinary Business Development Manager; and Chef Todd Ketterman, Culinary Manager. In part one of this two-part series, Dwigans and Ketterman discuss the new product development process, timelines, and interactions with customers and their own food scientist colleagues in R&D.

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