R & R Specialty Foods, LLC.

7th Symphony, cooking sauce, was taken main-stream by R &R Specialty Foods owner and founder, Forrest Reed straight from his mother's kitchen

We are R & R Specialty Foods, a friend and family-run company that operates in the Cleveland suburbs of Northeast Ohio, and this is our story, which begins with a question... How is it, exactly, that four kids end up starting a company while still underclassmen in college? Well, it all began with just one kid, an eccentric but friendly sophomore accounting major named Forrest J. Reed. Forrest had an idea, and it had to do with one of his mama's sauce recipes. He thought it could sell, but if Forrest was going to take his mother's sauce mainstream, he was going to need some help. So, he recruited Brendan and Bryan, two of his cross country teammates, and Mike, his RA from across the hall, and set up shop in his college dorm room. Forrest brought samples for the other three to try, and non