GEERLINGS & WADE BEING BAD

[Jerry D Mead]

Rick...Unless your restaurant trade assoc is different than most...they're in bed with the wholesalers. The thinking being that as combined forces they can get anything they want...plus they know the wholesalers spend more money and have more clout than they do.

In AZ, for example, the wholesalers supported a law banning corkage in exchange for the restaurant assoc getting behind whatever abuse they were passing that year...franchise maybe?

Besides, most restaurateurs don't give a fig about direct shipments to consumers.

JDM