“When youʻre with foods you love, stories come more naturally”
What is A Food Hub?
A food hub can be lots of things. At its simplest, a food hub is a strategy for meeting a need in the community for more affordable, more accessible food. Food hubs attempt to address this need by serving as a wholesale intermediary - by buying food and then distributing it. Hubs can take many different forms. Some hubs do everything - buy produce, store it, deliver it, retail it. Others just provide warehouse facilities and partner with a distributor. Some hubs provide marketing assistance - helping small farms build brands and advertise. Some are non-profits, some are for-profit, and some are mixed. But all have one thing in common: a desire for solutions that the current food system doesn't provide.
What is Our Food Hub?
In addition to ono prepared foods, the Roots Cafe also operates the Food Hub, a mini-market stocked with produce and cultural food products from our Food Hub partners, including customer favorites like Kakoʻo ʻŌiwi Poi and fresh Farm eggs. We look forward to expanding our product offerings, to be able to provide diversified ways for our friends to manage and celebrate their health.