City Market, Onion River Co-op
Ben Mace is the Grocery Manager at City Market, Onion River Co-op, overseeing a team of about 25 staff members. Ben is responsible for scheduling, handling PTO requests, and ensuring coverage. Ben also has experience in buying ingredients for the Prepared Foods department and monitoring sales and profit margins. Before their current position, Ben held various roles in the culinary industry, including as a Sous Chef at Cafe Shelburne and as a Line Cook at several establishments like River Grille and Trapp Family Lodge. Ben holds a MA in Natural Science from the University of Cambridge.
City Market, Onion River Co-op
City Market, Onion River Co-op, is a community-owned food cooperative with two locations in beautiful Burlington, Vermont. We offer a large selection of local, organic and conventional foods, and thousands of Vermont-made products. Our Downtown and South End stores are open daily. City Market provides a critical service to the residents of Burlington and the larger community by providing local, organic, and conventional foods, as well as thousands of Vermont products, at a fair price to all. We also offer a hot and cold food bar, grab and go meals, coffee and tea, a made-to-order sandwich bar, and a deli. The Co-op is also dedicated to supporting the local economy and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture. We work with over 1,000 Vermont vendors to feature the widest selection of local products in the state. 73% of the vendors we do business with are located in Vermont and over 60 cents of every dollar in sales stays here in Vermont. We are Member-owned, so the profits generated by Co-op Members are returned to our Members (in profitable years) through our Patronage Refund program. Additionally, as a Co-op, we offer Members the opportunity to do Member Work in exchange for a discount. This Member Work is done with our non-profit community partners, providing them with much needed volunteer help. To learn more about our offerings, Membership, and our commitment to our local community, please visit our website at www.citymarket.coop. You can also follow us on Instagram at www.instagram.com/citymarketcoop, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/citymarketcoop, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/CityMarket.