Recipe spurs startup

Shane Hauck has been selling his own versions of apple butter and sweet and spicy jalapeno ketchup through his startup, Clean Cuisine & Classy Creation Foods, for the past year.

Hauck, 21, of Providence, started the business as a limited-liability corporation in May 2014, based on a family apple-butter recipe that he modified, he said.

“I figured since enough of my friends and family like it, why not try to mass produce it and sell it to the public,” he explained.

With no employees but help from a few friends, he started selling the jam and sauce, his two specialties, in a commissary kitchen in Cranston, and in November switched to Hope & Main, the nonprofit food-business incubator in Warren. There, he pays a monthly fee to produce and package his jams and sauces, and get legal advice, he said.

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Hauck was set to receive a bachelor’s degree in food-service entrepreneurship from Johnson & Wales University this month. He sells retail at farmers markets and events, and sells wholesale at five stores and two restaurants in Providence.

Now in the testing phase: ghost pepper and pear jelly. •

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