It is entirely unfortunate that my personal business has been made public, and there have been several statements and false accusations made against me. As much as I would appreciate an opportunity to set the story straight and express the truth of the situation, I would prefer to keep my personal affairs discreet. However, I feel it necessary to express that the closing of the Kitchener store is against my wishes, and at this time out of my control. However, the Food Not Bombs challenges were resolved to both parties satisfaction and in no way played a part in the stores sales.

The circumstances of my marital separation have not been accurately portrayed in the past, and I have been victimized by many false statements and would like to express my grave disappointment, but trust that my customers, friends and family will continue to support the efforts of David’s Gourmet, servicing you from the Bruce Street location.

There has been reports the downtown Kitchener store is closing.

I am a vested shareholder in the downtown Kitchener location and there currently is court order which in essence prohibits the closing of the downtown store without my consent.

The current management unfortunately does not share the vision that I had when I came to the downtown core of the commitment of its residents or the vibrant future of downtown Kitchener.

There will be an article in the Record shortly where current management tries to blame disagreements with Food Not Bombs and the marketplace of the core.  Sales of the store went up during the controversy, and it was resolved shortly after with the purchase of a banner for the group where everyone involved was happy.  The downtown core is extremely supportive of their stores.  The fact of the matter is that only after existing management took over in August did support of the store deteriorate. 

Unfortunately with the change in management last August there has been many decisions made that I have feel have been to the detriment of the store and to its customers including empty shelves and staff that were well liked either quit or were fired to dismay of regular customers.  This lead to a store that could not be successful.

I will be vigorously pursuing through the courts to have current management obey court orders and have the store stay open for the people of downtown Kitchener.

In the meantime, I invite everyone from the downtown core to experience our new location on 25 Bruce Street.

Thank you Kitchener for your continued support!!! 

I am very proud and excited about our new location on Bruce Street.  Waterloo region finally has a one stop, environmentally conscious, customer service oriented grocery experience.

Fiddleheads Nutrition, Kara Fruit and Vegetables, and the Healthy Butcher have all joined David’s for a fantastic one shop experience.

Serving a huge selection of truly organic products, mostly from local farms.  We also use all recycleable containers, along with biodegradable shopping bags.

David’s Gourmet alone offers over 10,000 products.  Fiddleheads offer the regions best selection of gluten free and health conscious products.  The Healthy Butcher concentrates on only local organics butcher products, most cut and prepared on site.  And last but not least Kara’s, an institution at the St. Jacob’s market for over 20 years, offers the freshest and best selection of local and exotic fruits and vegetables in Waterloo Region.

We look forward to having you come give us a try, we are confident our friendly service, great environment, and superb selection will keep you coming back!

I want to let everyone know that since September I have had no association with both the Northfield location and Kitchener location.

I have received numerous concerns about service and product of the other stores, and I apologize as there is not much I can do about it.

However, I can promise you great service, well filled shelves, and new innovative products for all you foodies at our new spectacular Bruce Street location.

If you have any comments or suggestions I would love to hear from you.

David

This week we just had our first 1000 hit day on the web site, and we just exceed 1000 names that have asked to subscribe to our email mailing list. First, thank you KW, Guelph and Cambridge for the support! Also, if you would like to subscribe to our email mailing list which is full of receipes, new products, and culinary tips, please email me at david@davidsgourmet.com and ask to be on the list. We send it out about every 2 weeks. You can be removed at any time.

Thank again,
David.

Chef Doug, the David’s Gourmet team, and myself would like to thank you very much in voting for us as the Record’s People Poll’s Platinum Caterer of the Year.  We are very proud of what we do and will continue to improve every day.

Thanks again,

David.

We have just ordered over 100 new products that will arrive in the store in the next weeks.  Details to follow on the website and the email newsletter.

I am pleased to welcome you to something that I think is pretty exciting.  The sharing of ideas of a group of people with at least one thing in common, a passion for gourmet food. 

Since this business is something entirely new for me, I have had to take a crash course on many things such as cheese, olive oils, and chocolate.  In order to fill the store I had to look at over 10,000 products to determine the orginal 2,000 products we bought.  Now eight months later we have expanded the store and our product line is almost 6000 items, and growing. 

In this site I have included some basic tips on cheese tasting, olive oil making etc. that I found interesting and thought you might enjoy.

In addition, there are many great receipes that I thought you might also enjoy.

I would love to hear from you, the customer, on what we are doing right, what we can do to improve, answer questions, and I would love to learn from you as well.  Also, I would like to hear you product requests!

My goal is to have you, the customer, as passionate about our store is I am, I truly want you to feel this is your store!

Please feel free to dialogue with each other and myself, I will be on everyday.  Let’s make this fun.

Thanks for coming!

David Ehrenworth