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Brick Village Gourmet & Chef Tim Murphy

After several years of education and extensive executive positions within the food industry, Chef Tim Murphy has led the growth and development of Brick Village Gourmet since 2005 as co-founder and President. His vision was cultivated from his desire to manufacture super premium products with the attention to detail that only a Chef can provide.

Chef Murphy is a native of Western New York. A graduate of Cattaraugus Central School in 1972, Tim enrolled in the Culinary Institute of American in New Haven, Connecticut. Upon graduating from the Culinary Institute, he was drafted in the US Army where he acted as Personal Chef to Lt. General Fred Kornet, Jr., Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. From 1974 until 1989 Chef Murphy owned and operated two restaurants and a catering business in Gowanda, New York. From 1990 to 2004, he acted as Executive Chef/Director of new Product Development for SYSCO Food Services in Jamestown, New York.

With a deep understanding of the challenges today's women face in their quest for unique and natural products to serve their families and friends, Tim’s keen business sense coupled with his culinary expertise made him the ideal person to establish Brick Village Gourmet with his brother Pat. His vision was cultivated from his desire to manufacture super premium products with the attention to detail that only a Chef can provide. Since 2005, Chef Tim Murphy has led the growth and development of Brick Village Gourmet as co-founder and President.

Each day at Brick Village Gourmet is another day of invention which is driven by company founder Chef Tim Murphy and his dedicated staff of Executive Chefs.

Home to a line-up of all natural super premium products that are sure to please even the most discriminating palate, Brick Village Gourmet has established a loyal following of food connoisseurs that appreciate the innovation and care that only professional chefs can provide. "At Brick Village Gourmet, we do not begin with price in mind; we begin with the right ingredients. We have literally searched the world to find the right combination of domestic and imported all-natural ingredients to achieve the product quality that our customers demand."

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