If there was ever a person who shared Modmarket’s views on food and nutrition, it is Michael Pollan. His ideas directly informed many of the things we do at Modmarket and we have read all of his books more than once. He will be speaking at the Paramont Theatre in Denver on February 29th at 7:00pm and we are giving away 3 sets of tickets to the talk (they are normally $35 each!) He is incredibly dynamic in person and we can guarantee it will be an incredible evening! Click here to register to win free tickets!]]> http://www.modmarket.com/random-bits/free-tickets-to-michael-pollan-in-denver/feed 0 http://www.modmarket.com/our-food/super-bowl-catering-by-modmarket http://www.modmarket.com/our-food/super-bowl-catering-by-modmarket#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:17:27 +0000 Modmarket Catering in Denver and Boulder http://www.modmarket.com/?p=2458

We are running a 10% special on catering for the Super Bowl this year. Our sandwich trays and small bites are an affordable and healthy alternative to wings and pizza. Contact our catering team for more information!

Great review of Modmarket by Holly at Eat, Drink, Boulder

Our catering team has been doing a great job with box lunches lately. Check the ones out in the picture – salads with freshly grilled, all natural, never/ever, meats, a bag of POP chips and a piece of fruit. When is the last time you had food like that at an office meeting?

Despite all media believing Facebook is some magical tool that helps small businesses market themselves, my experience with using it for Modmarket has been filled with disappointment.

Some big issues:


You cannot run contests without using third party apps. This is ridiculous. If I want to give away a free meal to someone who comments on our page I should be able to do so without having to pay a third party service that has a crappy product (I am talking about you WildFire)

You cannot have a master page for a business with multiple locations. Did Facebook not realize that companies like restaurants might want a master page and sub pages so they can easily manage social media across all their locations?

The whole checkin program they implemented was a complete fail and has resulted in a bunch of random pages for Modmarket existing that we have no control over.

Their advertising costs about the same per click as google adwords and in our experience is much less effective.

This is all such a shame because with some small tweaks, it could be an amazingly useful platform for a company like Modmarket. Maybe once they go public this year they will get their act together.

Great review of Modmarket by a denver chiropractor, Dr Gebhardt.

So this is interesting, the Daily Camera is reporting that Trader Joe’s is coming to Boulder. And the rumor mill claims they are coming to the 29th Street Mall, home of Modmarket. We would love having our favorite grocery chain as a neighbor, though, we hope they are far enough away that the billion or so people flocking there every weekend leave enough parking for the rest of us!

Did you know Modmarket caters hors d’oeuvres in Denver and Boulder? Well, you do now.

Interesting story on NPR about how the State of Georgia is using fairly blunt ads as a way to build awareness around childhood obesity. They seem to be taking a page from the cigarette campaigns where they were trying to ‘shock’ people into quitting. While it is unclear if negative ads will work for obesity the same way they worked for cigarettes, there are a lot of parallels between the industries. Many food companies know they are selling products that are addictive and have very negative consequences to people who consume them. I wonder if the $25m mentioned in the article might be better spent on lobbying to force food companies to market less (or differently) to children? What if unhealthy (ie- high sugar/low fiber foods) had to have labels on them telling you “this product will make you fat”? I think shocking people at the point of purchase might have a stronger affect than shocking them while they are watching TV or driving down the road.

Our friends over at TEDx Mile High have a great event coming up in a few weeks. It is going to be 7 speakers, some great catering by Modmarket, and a great crowd of interesting Mile Highers to mingle with. Buy your tickets here.