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The lasting relationships behind Conti’s menu

IN the highly dynamic, everevolving, fastchanging world of business, relationships come and go. This is especially true for big brands that have been around for decades. It is a testament, then, to the shared values of Conti’s Bakeshop and Restaurant, and some of its partners that they remain integral to each other’s success since the early years of the popular homegrown food chain.

Two of those partners, Vicky and Lofrie, have been with the brand founded and owned by the Conti sisters of Batangas for at least 15 years.

“We are very fortunate to have found partners who shared our values and goals early on,” says Patricia MarañonTan, daughter of one of the Conti sisters and current Conti’s general manager.

Patricia notes that Vicky actually began as a regular source of seafood for family gatherings and parties in the Conti home in Parañaque.

She is an owner of a small stall in a nearby wet market, and the year was 1997, which marked the birth of Conti’s. The market stall is a family venture. The catering deliveries for the Conti family affairs soon evolved into regularly supplying shrimp guisa and shrimp medium tiger for the restaurant.

Through Conti’s partnership alone, she was able to make a very good living for her family.

Another supplier, Lofrie, has exactly the same thing to say about the Conti sisters.

Her own enterprise has been a Conti’s partner for 15 years now. In the beginning, it supplied mainly prawns but has since expanded to other seafoods including squid, tilapia and bangus (milkfish).

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