______________________________________________________________________________________ Sierra
Meat & Seafood
The development of the business and its offerings has led Sierra to refine its manufacturing process, as Jakob Day, Director of Operations, points out.“ To date, we have witnessed all sorts of advancements in production and operations, mainly focused on capacity and efficiency improvements. In addition, with new food safety initiatives and regulations continuing to become tighter, we aim to stay on the cutting edge of that by embracing a‘ more is better’ approach. As part of that, we always prioritize being stricter with our regulations, meeting requirements, and anticipating what is next. Rick Flocchini, our Production Manager, ran the production room at Sierra for many years, among many other roles within the company. Recently, he has returned to help enhance our production efficiencies and strengthen our historical business models, thereby bolstering our internal knowledge base and routines.”
Bernadette proceeds to give us a detailed rundown of Sierra’ s range of products and
services across its five divisions.“ Focused on the center of the plate, our offerings include our Certified Angus Beef™ which is our signature beef product, and we carry every USDA grade from prime to select, to ungraded beef, as well as our vertically integrated Durham Ranch American Wagyu. Alongside our veal, lamb, and poultry products, we provide three types of pork: Berkshire, Duroc, and commodity pork. Since we are close to California, we must ensure that we have California Proposition 12 certified pork for our client base there. Furthermore, we have a fish room dedicated to production, where we bring in whole fish, cut fillets and portions, and offer shellfish and a line of frozen seafood, including shrimp and scallops. In fact, all the best all-you-can-eat sushi restaurants in Reno buy our sushi line.
“ With Sierra as the distribution arm of our sausage facility in Carson City, we sell our sausage products across Northern Nevada and in California. Throughout the country,
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