#31: Food Management Associates
Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox
Company: Food Management
Associates, a Yorba Linda, California, contractor of food service
management and consulting
Founder: Richard Warmolts,
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Began: May 2001
2001 Sales: $1.4 million
When did you know that you had made
it?
Richard Warmolts: When I was awarded a national contract to
provide food services for children in a behavioral rehabilitation
program.
Who is your business role
model?
Warmolts: My Uncle Joe, who, through hard work and family
involvement, built a most successful golf course, when the experts
said it was impossible to grow grass in the local soil.
Do you have any business
advice?
Warmolts: Be honest and straightforward in your business
dealings. Earn the business by delivering a valued service.
Don't buy the business. Good business ethics will earn
long-term success. Lastly, you're in the people business, not
the "food" business--so take care of your people and make
sure you satisfy their career and economic needs.
What are your plans for the
future?
Warmolts: To have fun in business and give something back to
the community. Assisting organizations dedicated to helping abused
children seems to be the direction I am being led.
