A.G. Gancarski
Jacksonville City Councilwoman Katrina Brown, in what some will frame as a response to a Florida Times-Union article delineating the slow progress at her family’s city-subsidized barbeque sauce company, notes that “we are currently still hiring” in a Sunday morning Facebook post.
Resumes are to be sent to [email protected] and there will be live interviews conducted Thursday at the company’s Commonwealth Avenue HQ for “sale reps” and “Warehouse workers.”
As well, Brown urges readers to “stop by… local Sam’s Club or Winn-Dixie stores and pick up a bottle of Jerome Brown BBQ Sauce.”
“Every bottle you buy helps us employ good people,” Brown added.
“Given a chance to help a homegrown company go national with Jerome Brown Original BBQ Sauce, the city of Jacksonville agreed in 2011 to put up $640,000 for the venture… Five years later, the building at 5638 Commonwealth…looks more like a vacant warehouse than it does a place of business,” T-U scribe David Bauerlein wrote this weekend, as part of an ongoing series of stories about the slow flow of the sauce so far.
The plant will need to onboard 56 employees by the end of April to hit the city’s expectations. Rules Committee Chairman Matt Schellenberg has already asked the Council Auditor to look into the mechanics of this deal.
