MONTEREY MARKET NEEDS YOUR HELP!! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

PLEASE MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
PLEASE go to Friends of Monterey Market and show your support/read about what you can do.
PLEASE WRITE A LETTER.
PLEASE DO NOT SHOP AT MONTEREY MARKET AFTER JUNE 3rd UNLESS BILL FUJIMOTO takes back his resignation.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD THAT MONTEREY MARKET NEEDS EVERY ONE'S HELP to make it clear that Bill Fujimoto IS Monterey Market and his resignation is not an option.
PLEASE MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE ENTIRE FUJIMOTO FAMILY that you will not support a market that places its bottom line before family.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.

If you have eaten ANYWHERE IN THE BAY AREA, you have supported Monterey Market.
If you have ever shopped at ANY FARMERS MARKET, you have supported Monterey Market.
If you have ever blogged about new fruit in season, new fruit available in the USA, climbed upon the great pumpkin interactive sculpture in North Berkeley, or made anything in any home kitchen or restaurant or catering kitchen with any fruit or vegetables, you have supported Monterey Market.
If you believe in farmers, chefs with integrity, great produce, eating seasonally, eating locally, supporting local business YOU BELIEVE IN SUPPORTING MONTEREY MARKET.
AND YOU WOULD CONSIDER SHOWING YOUR SUPPORT TO A MARKET, A TEMPLE, A STORE, AN INSTITUTION that was in need of help.

MONTEREY MARKET NEEDS YOUR HELP.
PLEASE BLOG ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW AND LET GOOGLE AND THE FUJIMOTOS KNOW WE WILL BE HEARD.
WE DO NOT ACCEPT BILL FUJIMOTO'S RESIGNATION.
WE WILL NOT SHOP AT THE STORE IF THE FAMILY ACCEPTS HIS RESIGNATION.
PLEASE TWEET ABOUT MONTEREY MARKET and the petition.
PLEASE TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING.

I love Monterey Market.
I always have.
I always will.
I support Monterey Market from accross the USA and into the United Kingdom.
BUY EAT AT BILLS AND WATCH IT WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW PILED INTO THE LIVINGROOM if you don't believe me when I say this is a place that must be saved!!!!!!

**If you have time to leave a comment here, you have time to write a letter to the Fujimoto's.

Comments

[Noshzilla Kat]

This is like going through parents divorce...so emotional and I'm convinced that saying my two cents will not make a bit of difference, BUT I feel compelled to do so.

Bill is a smart business man, and he made choices to create a business that supported it's community (the customers, the farmers, AND the staff)...over the traditional chain alternative of low quality high priced produce and union employees.

HIS choices are what made Monterey Market the success it is today. I fear anyone else coming will to manage things will simply choose short term profit over long term viability.

I know that it may be too late in the game, and maybe Bill will move on to create another company, but I simply can't stand by silently.

Amazing how a produce market can mean so much to so many people.

[Ore]

How anyone asked Bill if it's time for him to retire? Maybe he wants this?

Where's the story?

[Danielle]

I posted the article from the SF gate onto Serious Eats, so hopefully some Cali residents will see it.

[Diane]

I signed it, but I'm far from convinced this is an appropriate response to a family quarrel. I like MM and Bill, but have no real way of knowing what the internal family issues are - just someone's third-hand view of the events. It's notoriously difficult doing business with family and many family businesses end in bad blood for many reasons.

Still, I hope he changes his mind, as he's made the place very special to all of us.

[Stefanie]

hi and thanks, i just ordered the dvd! hope you are well over there!

[sara]

I see that Samin's original blog with the petitions is now closed to readers unless they've been invited.

Now, I'm as much a foodie as the next former Berkeley resident (I don't live there anymore, but I still work there, and shop at MM frequently), but I don't see how this is appropriate.

It's a great market, but maybe Bill is going to open another? There are a lot of things that could happen. I was completely gobsmacked to learn about the feud and related hoohah on Friday. I shop there weekly, and I chat it up with with the gentlemen in produce, and with the ladies at the register, and I kind of wonder if the store is going to change appreciably once Bill is gone.

Maybe there's room for yet another market in town. Maybe Bill is done. Maybe someone should ask him?

[Andrew]

Monterey Market is one of my favorite things about living in North Berkeley. It would be disastrous if it changes or goes downhill or closes. As a customer I will do all I can to make it clear the importance they hold in so many lives.

[T. Moore]

I am a loving customer of Monterey Market. I hope the restaurants and farmers do not hurt the market because it is near and dear to my heart. Bill just quit his job so please let the market continue as it has for 30 plus years.

In the last two weeks, the customers have showed their loyalty to the families and employees.

Please don't boycott the market to death.

Just be happy for Bill who can now spend more time with his family and his new mountains to climb.