Tag your bestie to the east or west 'cuz Fortune Favors is now available at Fresh Thyme Market stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin! Find our candied pecans on local end caps at these locations (with more coming soon!): •Rochester, MN •Apple Valley, MN •Vadnais Heights, MN •Waite Park, MN •Ashwaubenon, WI •St. Louis Park, MN •Plymouth, MN •Brookfield, WI •Minneapolis, MN
Fortune Favors
Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Madison, Wisconsin 322 followers
A nut that elevates snacking into experience!
About us
Life is moments, connected. We believe fortune favors those who weave wonder into weekdays, who make magic from mundane. We are a nut company that savors the occasion of being alive. A nut company that believes in the magnitude of a moment. Our pecans, perfect companion pieces — magic seeds sown for sharing. Nuts, enchanted in a world of daily occurrences that when examined, contain opportunity to share, to seek magic, to let the light in. Fortune Favors | Enchant Every Moment Fortune Favors began as a mistake. Or was it something more magical, more...fortuitous? Eric was hard at work in the kitchen, the stovetop crowded with pots and pans, when he accidentally dropped some pecan halves into the wrong pot. When he saw them again later, he stopped and looked more closely. They had a perfect, shiny glaze as though they had been intentionally and carefully conjured. He tasted one, and was surprised at how crunchy and delicious it was. Over the next hour, as if in a trance, he ate them all. He added salt to a second batch, and shared them with family and friends. They were instantly spellbound, and a ritual was born: Eric would prepare these enchanting treats for campfires or holiday gifts, and they would be instantly and utterly devoured. He marveled every time someone took their first bite. In all of his legendary culinary career, he had never seen a food make people as happy as his candied pecans did. In a leap of faith, Eric left his primary career as chef in 2018 to found Fortune Favors (originally called Nutkrack), with co-founder Jessica Benish. He went about the task with a humble and grateful Midwestern sensibility along with a healthy dose of nostalgia and humor. Today, Eric and a small team of food-lovers are sharing Fortune Favors candied pecans across the nation. Fortune Favors those who taste something extraordinary, and share it!
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https://fortunefavorsnuts.com/
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- Industry
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Madison, Wisconsin
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2018
- Specialties
- candied pecans, healthy snacks, keto-friendly, client gifts, corporate gifts, holiday gifts, wholesale, gluten free, specialty food, cpg, and cpg brand
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2086 Atwood Ave
Madison, Wisconsin 53704, US
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CEO at Fortune Favors, Wisconsin SBA Small Business of the Year 2024 -- We are fundraising, message me to join in!
We’ve been working on this one for a long time! This latest milestone in the #YearofthePecan is a double whammy for us, and it’s in our own backyard: we get to partner with a beloved Midwestern company AND one of best names in the cheese game. Find us at your local Murray’s counter in Wisconsin and Illinois today! Big thanks to Mariah Colbert and her team, as well as Michael Glosman and the crew at Gourmet Foods International for partnering with us to make this happen. Find us at your local Murray’s counter in Wisconsin and Illinois today!
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CEO at Fortune Favors, Wisconsin SBA Small Business of the Year 2024 -- We are fundraising, message me to join in!
We are back at home after the best trade show on the planet! The American Cheese Society National Conference is da (cheese) bomb. There is no other trade show I have ever attended that is populated with such an incredibly diverse set of people with so much in common. The vibe is amazing! Everyone is welcoming and friendly and there to do the same thing...celebrate the work and people and food that they love. Here's a story that is the perfect encapsulation of the show: Our flight out was at 615 AM on Saturday, and Eric Rupert and I called a Lyft. They were slow to arrive, and although it was an airport ride with two passengers, the driver in the large 4 door truck said he could only fit one suitcase. When we told him we had 6 (#tradeshowlife), he drove off without saying a word. There was a car next to us, waiting for the Lyft guy to get out of the way. They rolled down the window, AND OFFERED US A RIDE TO THE AIRPORT! Who was driving the car? President of Vermont Creamery David Stearle. That's ACS for you. You should be there in Sacramento next year.
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Introducing... Fortune Favors The Mesquite. Our newest flavor sings a song of sweet, salty, and smoky perfection: caramelized candied pecans seasoned with a delicate mix of cumin, chipotle, and coriander. It's the essence of summer, destined to be shared with your favorite people around a picnic basket under a bright blue sky, adding a touch of revelry to all of your summer occasions! This flavor is very close to our hearts as it has been in the making for a long time. Four years ago, Fortune Favors co-founder and COO, Jessica Benish, first ignited the idea of a sweet and salty, barbecue-flavored candied pecan. Over the years, she worked with Chef Eric to tweak the recipe, making sure it matched the vegan, gluten-free, and low sugar standards of the rest of our products. Now it finally has its own moment! https://lnkd.in/g5aEVARg
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Jason Buechel, CEO of Whole Foods Market, took time to shop the Summer #FancyFoodShow before his awesome keynote session on Monday. He spoke with exhibitors and stocked his Whole Foods Bag with delicious items to share with the audience. From chocolate and honey to pate, olives, and sardines, this visionary leader showcased #specialtyfood innovation and highlighted consumer trends with every product he selected. Scroll through to get a look inside his bag, and check out these brands: A Priori Specialty Food & Distribution Acetaia i Solai Agritalia S.p.A. Acetaia Bellei Charcuterie Artisans Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin La Panzanella Artisanal Foods Co. Effie's Homemade, LLC FOODMatch Forever Cheese Fortune Favors Inés Rosales Galvanina Sartori Company Sea Tales Somerdale International Ltd United Olive Oil Import Corp. Village Gourmet #wefancy #specialtyfoodassociation
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CEO at Fortune Favors, Wisconsin SBA Small Business of the Year 2024 -- We are fundraising, message me to join in!
Walking the floor at summer #fancyfoodshow today? You can see this killer crew at booth 5259! And…come join us at Jason Buechel ‘s Keynote, where he will sing the praises of our delicious candied pecans…among other things :)
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Booth 5259, we’ve got snacks!
CEO at Fortune Favors, Wisconsin SBA Small Business of the Year 2024 -- We are fundraising, message me to join in!
Things have changed a lot since 2020! Our last time exhibiting at the #FancyFoodShow was January of 2020. We had a different name, and are now pretty sure we came home with COVID. Fast forward to today, and Eric Rupert sure looks different! 😂😂😂 That’s our demo queen @amber eckert, at our new booth here in NYC! Come see us at booth 5259, thanks Specialty Food Association , we missed ya!
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Now that's a great looking group right there!
CEO at Fortune Favors, Wisconsin SBA Small Business of the Year 2024 -- We are fundraising, message me to join in!
This is 87% of the awesome team here at Fortune Favors! I am sharing this pic of our people as an entry into a discussion of service and community, but not in the way you think I am going to ;) As I have mentioned, we take a different approach here, and we are letting you behind the curtain a little bit more over the next few days: The first line of our Values and Principles document is: Service is our product. In case you forgot, we make candied pecans :) WTF are we talking about?! Stay tuned...
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6 years?? 6 years!!! Siiiiixxxx yeeeeaaaarrs!!!
CEO at Fortune Favors, Wisconsin SBA Small Business of the Year 2024 -- We are fundraising, message me to join in!
Hey folks. If you haven’t yet tried our product, and even more likely if you have, today would be a good day to head on over to: fortunefavorsnuts.com We are celebrating 6 years of delicious pecans, beautiful packaging, amazing people and Squirrel Fight Club on Atwood Ave :) Fortune Favors
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CEO at Fortune Favors, Wisconsin SBA Small Business of the Year 2024 -- We are fundraising, message me to join in!
As you may have heard, we were on Bravo TV's Top Chef :) I also had the happy opportunity to join our friend and local The Capital Times food reporter Lindsay Christians' great podcast, The Corner Table, to talk about our experience as Fortune Favors and as diner at the Door County Fish Boil episode, and about how great the Wisconsin food scene is! Don't care to listen to me? Skip the first segment, and listen to the amazing Dan Jacobs, who is an actual cheftestant on the show, and a much more interesting listen ;) https://lnkd.in/gUEJsxSE