A summer job helping his father deliver boxes of vegetables to Fresno restaurants has turned into a growing and specialized enterprise for Mike Kahaian over the last 26 years.
His company, 1st Quality Produce, provides school districts, restaurants, hotels and other food-service businesses statewide with fresh cut peppers, zucchini, and fruit including pineapple, mangoes and melons.
While some of the vegetables are diced in machines, the fruit is still cut by hand. In the company’s new 38-degree production facility in southeast Fresno, a worker slices the prickly skin off a pineapple and cubes the fruit in about 12 seconds.
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