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Madison Rench, who owns BC Boba

with husband, Josh, serves up their

award winning boba tea at Food

Prize Saturday. (Shopper News photo by

Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

The Missing Link reacts to their third

place finish at Food Prize Saturday

at Kellogg Arena. (Shopper News photo by

Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

FOOD
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Production/Manufacturing Category

was Super Cookie winning $7,000,

the Missing Link Cart & Catering

winning $3,000 and technical assis-

tance winners were Thickhum’s

Sweets with $2,500 and Delectable

Treats & Sweets with $1,200.

Finalist Da Snack Squad did not

appear at the event.

Food Prize, the brainchild

of Sprout BC founder, Jeremy

Andrews, and presented by Sprout,

Penetrator Events, the Small

Business Development Office, Battle

Creek Food Reimagined and more,

attracted about 300 people who could

not only taste the offerings of the 12

finalists for the pitch competition,

but purchase food from any of about

20 vendors.

Andrews said the attendance this

year was down by about 100 this

year.

Gabriela Perez-Herndandez,

director of Battle Creek Food

Reimagined, a division of Battle

Creek Unlimited, served as the

facilitator of the pitch competition,

held live in front of judges and a live

audience in a back room.

“I got a small grant for this event,”

said Andrews of how it got started.

“And then, I was like, ‘hey, people

that I put on food festivals with, do

you want to put this one on together

and maybe we can make it big-

ger?’” he said. “Also, I wanted to get

Gabby involved in this because they

have resources and they’re working

with small food businesses so it was

kind of perfect.”

Andrews said he hopes to continue

to improve the event in future years.

Perez-Hernandez said she is excit-

ed to help the small businesses with

the cash prizes.

“They have good plans and that

can help attract people to town,” she

said.

Hannah Sanchez of Thickum’s

Sweets Cheesecake said she makes

her fare at the Sprout Kitchen, a

commercial kitchen for small busi-

nesses, in Springfield.

“I supply Horrock’s here in Battle

Creek and in Lansing,” she said,

“Jack’s Grocery in Union City and I

just do a bunch of farmer’s markets

and events like this.”

It was her first time competing at

Food Prize.

“I’m trying to secure a location...

right now,” she said of why she

wanted to compete.

Drea and Noah Fox and Abigail

and Matthew Maletta, all of Battle

Creek, attended Food Prize together

to enjoy the food and the local cul-

ture.

“We love some of these small busi-

nesses and we were super excited

to come out and support,” said Drea

Fox, “and maybe run into a few busi-

nesses maybe we hadn’t gotten the

opportunity to see yet.”

The group said they tried many of

the offerings.

“We’ve always been fans of BC

Boba,” she said, “so specifically, we

came out to support them since we

love them and the cool stuff they’ve

done in Battle Creek but, like the

rolled ice cream shop, the lemonade

and it’s cool to see some who have

been successful and keep growing

like Simply Sensational Berries, we

love them.”

Abigail said she really enjoyed

learning more about Farm 2 Fork.

“It’s cool seeing the farmers who

actually raise the goats and the

lambs,” she said, “and then trying

their food.”

Farm 2 Fork, owned by Darin

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