How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees

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How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees
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Honestly, the retail shop and restaurant really went downhill shortly after that happened. My family used to eat there weekly. Breakfasts were excellent and nicely priced. Over the next couple years we just stopped.

Now I just miss that vegetarian sausage omelette with those cheesy grits.

I don’t know why those things seemed to coincide but the handover was in the local news a lot and shortly thereafter it just seemed to begin its decline.

That's too bad. I had moved away from Milwaukie by then so it wasn't really practical for me to make my way down there. I still eat a lot of their grains and other products, though.

Yeah. I still buy a lot of their products especially the Artisan Flours. Such great products.

He initiated the ESOP in 2010 so maybe it's worth trying again?

I tried many times including multiple times a few years ago (after they put up the big outside area). Still disappointing, sadly.