There's a pattern that shows up inside almost every food company that has a culture gap.
It didn't start as a gap. It started as a workaround. A shortcut that made sense under pressure. A conversation that didn't happen because the timing wasn't right. A standard that slipped slightly during a difficult quarter and then became the new normal without anyone deciding it should be.
And then it happened again. And again. Until it stopped feeling like a deviation and started feeling like how things...
I grew up professionally in a food company where culture wasn't a program. It wasn't a survey. It wasn't something the food safety team owned while everyone else focused on production.
It was just how things were done.
People came first. Expectations were clear. There was no version of the conversation where cutting a corner on food safety was acceptable — not because of the audit, but because of who we were as an organization. That wasn't written on the wall. It was lived on the floor, every ...
