Show Notes
My girlfriend Sarah joins to talk about frozen food, a surprising amount of corporate espionage, and the private company that has a ~70% likelihood of supplying your public school's pizza: Schwan's! The school lunch contract biz is more intense than you'd think. Please follow @BustedBizBureau everywhere!
- Marvin M. Schwan, John Radzilowski, Immigrant Entrepreneurship 2018
- Schwan, Marvin in front of an original ice cream truck, ca. 1977
- Ketchup as a Vegetable: Condiments and the Politics of School Lunch in Reagan’s America, Amy Bentley, Gastronomica 2021
- Judge Allows Lawsuit to Proceed in $870 Million Schwan Heir Case, AP News 1996
- MARK SCHWAN AND PAUL SCHWAN VS LAWRENCE BURDGOF ET. AL, APPEAL FROM SECOND JUDICIAL COURT, MINNEHHAHA COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA
- Corporate Spies: The Pizza Plot, Adam L. Penenberg and Marc Barry, NYT 2000
- UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Schwan’s IP, LLC, and Schwan’s Consumer Brands North America, Inc VS Kraft Pizza Company
- Potato politics, with a pizza side, David Rogers, Politico 2011
- Washington pizza sauce fight has deep Minnesota ties, Brett Neely, MPRNews 2011
- Leading School Food Supplier, Schwan’s Food Service, Serves Up Industry’s First Portfolio of Products to Meet Proposed USDA School Meal Rules, BusinessWire 2011
- City Schools’ Food Program Struggles with Pizza Problems, City Limits 2016
- Schwan's Co. v. Cai 12-2-2021
