Sources:
Enter the
Share Market®
Produce Briefs...
Ramps
The wild ramp, AKA wild leek, botanical name Allium tricoccum, is a flowering perennial plant that grows in clusters. It is a member of the Allium family along with onions and leeks
Calamondin Limes
The Calamondin lime is a cross between a sour, loose skinned mandarin and a kumquat, therefore technically making it an orangequat.
Salanova® Lettuces
Salanova® lettuce is a full-sized variety developed for the baby lettuce market. Botanically these varieties are scientifically known as Lactuca sativa.
About the Specialty Produce Network
The Company
Specialty Produce is a family owned and operated food service and retail fresh produce supplier located in San Diego, CA. A premium provider for more than thirty years, Specialty Produce continues to be a leader in service, product quality and technology.
The Products
- Specialty Produce is an organic (CCOF) & food safety (HACCP) certified facility.
- We only buy products from first-tier approved vendors.
- We carry a wide array of products encompassing all our customers' needs.
- Our strategically located warehouse allows us to service customers throughout the greater San Diego area.
- Food safety is our focus and is paramount in our daily operations, administered by a full-time food safety manager. Robert Romaine, a twenty-seven year veteran of San Diego environmental health, is our revered Food Safety Consultant.
- Pricing is negotiated via contract models for each vendor.
The Service Team
The Specialty Produce team includes more than one hundred enthusiastic and dedicated employees.
- Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our hard working team provides same day delivery and just-in-time orders.
- The only provider with 24-7 availability, our in-house servers constantly receive specific customer orders, inventory, marketing information and pricing and immediately notify the customer's sales representative and drivers using wireless technology.
- This competitive advantage has made Specialty Produce a leader in service and dependability.
The Philosophy
Specialty Produce strives to:
- Build long term relationships with our valued customers, employees, suppliers, associates and our community.
- Listen and respond to our customers' needs whether simple or complex.
- Understand, anticipate and be flexible in order to provide quality products and high customer satisfaction.
- Maintain a comprehensive, convenient, & user-friendly online presence; both for the casual visitor and our customers who want to leverage our system to their advantage.
Giving Back
Specialty Produce is proud to work with several non-profit organizations within the community, including:
In addition, Specialty Produce has partnered with the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank to fight against hunger in San Diego County. Specialty Produce is committed to the goal of donating excess food to local nonprofits.Contact Specialty Produce
| Phone: | |
| 619-876-4084 | Retail & Farmers' Market Box Program |
| 619-295-3172 | Main (Commercial Customers) |
| Email: | |
| General inquiries | |
| Retail & Farmers' Market Box Program | |
| Questions or comments addressed to management | |
Twitter: @SpecialtyProd
Facebook: facebook.com/specialtyproduce
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 82066, San Diego, CA 92138
Warehouse Address: 1929 Hancock St. Suite 150, San Diego, CA 92110
Careers @ Specialty Produce: We are often looking for qualified candidates for positions at Specialty Produce.
Please start by filling out our Online Application (link).
Walk-In Hours: We are open to the general public daily from 8am-5pm.
Interested in a tour? Currently, due to the global pandemic and in accordance with CDC guidelines, we have suspended our tour program. We hope to resume this program once health officials deem it safe. In the meantime, we are fully open to the public and encourage you to visit us for your retail needs during our business hours. We are open 7 days a week from 8am to 5pm.
The green arrow in the map below indicates where Specialty Produce is located.
The public entrance is on the northwest side of the building.
At the corner of the building on Hancock, walk down the steps and sidewalk to the marked entrance.
(Click image for Google Maps link...)
Multimedia - Videos, Images, Audio and Links
Update 10/20/20
Plated Earth and SpecialtyProduceNetwork podcast listings will be migrating here soon...
Press information about Specialty Produce
Contact: The Orange Department
Email:
| Images are reduced to fit on the page, right-click and "Save Image as..." to download full-size image. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image Type | Small 150px |
Medium 300px |
Large 600px |
Xtra Large 1200px |
| Color PNG |  |
 |
 |
 |
| Greyscale PNG |  |
 |
 |
 |
| EPS | Click to download SP_Logo_Font_Embed.eps | |||
Online Privacy Policy
Specialty Produce (the "Company") has developed this Privacy Policy out
of respect for the privacy of our customers and visitors to our Website.
This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and
disclose about individual consumers and website visitors who are
California residents. This policy applies only to California residents
who are natural persons; it does not apply to any entities (whether
business, non-profit or governmental) or to any person who is not a
California resident.
Whenever you visit our website, we will collect some information from you automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through this site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using a form on the website, request information, or use any of the other interactive portions of our Web site. Through this website, we will collect information that can identify you and/or your activity. And whenever you communicate, interact or do business with us, whether online or at any Company locations or stores, we will be collecting personal information from you or about you in the course of our interaction or dealings with you.
Specialty Produce may collect the following categories of personal information about you based on your specific transactions and interactions with the Company or its website. For each category of information, we identify examples of the category, the business purposes for which we use the information in that category, the categories of sources from which the information is collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we have shared the information in the last 12 months.| Category of Personal Information | Personal Identifiers & Contact Information |
| Examples | Name, alias, mailing address, email address, phone number, account username and password, social media handles and personal webpages |
| Business Purpose(s) for Which Information is Used |
|
| Categories of Sources from Which Information Received | From you the consumer, visitors of our Website |
| Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info was Disclosed in Last 12 Months | We do not share this information with any third party, unless required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of defending or prosecuting legal claims |
| Category of Personal Information | Internet Activity |
| Examples | Date and time of your visit to this Website; webpages visited; links clicked on the Website; browser ID; browser type; device ID; operating system; form information downloaded; domain name from which our site was accessed; and cookies |
| Business Purpose(s) for Which Information is Used |
|
| Categories of Sources from Which Information Received | Visitors of our Website and the device and browser used to access the Website |
| Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info was Disclosed in Last 12 Months | We do not share this information with any third party, unless required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of defending or prosecuting legal claims |
| Category of Personal Information | Geolocation Data |
| Examples | IP Address |
| Business Purpose(s) for Which Information is Used |
|
| Categories of Sources from Which Information Received | Visitors of our Website and the device and browser used to access the Website |
| Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info was Disclosed in Last 12 Months | We do not share this information with any third party, unless required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of defending or prosecuting legal claims |
| Category of Personal Information | Commercial Transaction Data |
| Examples | Records of purchasing history; financial transactions |
| Business Purpose(s) for Which Information is Used |
|
| Categories of Sources from Which Information Received | From you the consumer |
| Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info was Disclosed in Last 12 Months |
|
| Category of Personal Information | Biometric Data |
| Examples | Voice recordings of customer calls for training or quality assurance purposes; surveillance footage of Company property |
| Business Purpose(s) for Which Information is Used |
|
| Categories of Sources from Which Information Received | From you the consumer; through our observation |
| Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info was Disclosed in Last 12 Months | We do not share this information with any third party, unless required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of defending or prosecuting legal claims |
Do we sell any of your personal information?
The Company does NOT and will not sell your personal information, including the data of any minors. We do not sell or otherwise trade the personal information that we collect from our site visitors at any point or under any circumstance.Third-party vendors
The Company may use other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include administering e-mail services and running special promotions. Such parties only have access to the personal information needed to perform these functions and may not use or store the information for any other purpose. Subscribers or site visitors will never receive unsolicited e-mail messages from vendors working on our behalf.Business transfers
In the event the Company sells or transfers a particular portion of its business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction. If substantially all of the assets of the Company are acquired, consumer information may be transferred as part of the acquisition.Compliance with law/safety
The Company may disclose specific personal information based on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect the users of our Website, the site itself, or the public.Use of cookies and other tracking technologies
Cookies are small files that a Website may transfer to a user’s computer that reside there for either the duration of the browsing session (session cookies) or on a permanent (until deleted) basis (persistent cookies) that may be used to identify a user, a user’s machine, or a user’s behavior. We make use of cookies under the following circumstances and for the following reasons:- Compile data about site traffic to offer a better Website experience
- Understand and save visitor preferences for future visits
Therefore, we do not respond to DNT signals or other mechanisms that provide a choice regarding the collection of personal information about activities over time and across different Web sites or online services. If a universal standard for DNT becomes available, we may revisit our DNT Policy.
External links
Our website contain links to other sites. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit via a link from our website.Children under the age of 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on our Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at the email address below.Your Rights as a California Consumer
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:- Right to Know. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we identify to you (1) the categories of personal information we have collected, disclosed or sold about you in the last 12 months, (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, (3) the business purpose for which we use this information, and (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share or have shared your personal information in the last 12 months
- Right to Access. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we provide you access to or disclose to you, free of charge, the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the last 12 months
- Right to Delete. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we delete personal information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions
- Right to Opt-Out. The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties
- The right to designate an authorized agent to submit one of the above requests on your behalf
- The right to not be discriminated against in receiving different or less favorable pricing, service or financial incentive for exercising any of the above rights
You can submit any of the above 4 types of consumer requests by any of the 2 options below
- Submit an online request on our website at
- Call our privacy toll-free line at (877) 331-2897
How we will verify that it is really you submitting the request
When you submit a Right to Know, Right to Access, or Right to Delete consumer request through one of the methods provided above, we will ask you to provide some information in order to verify your identity and respond to your request. Specifically, we will ask you to verify information that can be used to link your identity to particular records in our possession, which depends on the nature of your relationship and interaction with us. For example, we may need you to provide your name, address, email, phone number, last 4 digits of your SSN and your date of birth. In addition, our third-party identity verification provider will require your authorization to access your credit report. If your sole interaction with us was as a website visitor, then in order to verify your identify, we will need to ask you to provide your name, email, phone number, IP address, device ID, browser ID, and/or cookie ID.Responding to your Right to Know, Right to Access, and Right to Delete requests
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 45 days or 90 days total from the date we receive your request), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your verifiable consumer request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.Responding to your consumer request to opt-out of the sale of your personal information
We will act upon a verifiable consumer request to opt-out within fifteen (15) days of its receipt. We will notify all third parties to whom we have sold personal information within 90 days of our receipt of your request that you have exercised your right to opt-out and instruct them not to further sell the information. We will notify you when this has been completed by mail or electronically, at your option.A request to opt-out need not be a verifiable consumer request. However, we may deny a request to opt-out if we have a good faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to opt-out is fraudulent. If we deny your request to opt-out, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.
How to authorize an agent to act on your behalf
You can authorize someone else as an Authorized Agent who can submit a consumer request on your behalf. To do so, you must either (a) execute a valid, verifiable, and notarized Power of Attorney or (b) provide other written authorization that we can then verify. When we receive a consumer request submitted on your behalf by an Authorized Agent, that person will be asked to provide written proof that they have your permission to act on your behalf, and we will also contact you and ask you for information to verify your own identity directly with us and not through your Authorized Agent.Severability
If any provision of this Privacy Policy is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Privacy Policy will continue in full force and effect.Consent to Terms and Conditions
By using this Website, you consent to all Terms and Conditions expressed in this Privacy Policy.Changes
From time to time we may modify and/or update this Privacy Policy and so we encourage you to check back on a regular basis to determine if any changes have been made.Questions About the Policy
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, go to our , call (877) 331-2897, or email .**This
policy was last updated 8/4/2020.
