This was originally written a while ago for the consulting platform Hourly Nerd, which has since transformed into  Catalant  . I am putting it in this blog, because distribution has once again become a critical issue. The industry is consolidating established companies while new Food Start-Ups are being founded on a local level at a rapid rate. Start-up businesses have an almost 50% failure rate after 2 years and 80% of the survivors never get past one employee (SBA). Even i