Since our change to new Yumm! Sauce packaging early in 2009, we’ve had a tremendous amount of feedback. I blogged about the new packaging in July, discussing my reasons for the change from glass jars to the plastic tubs. While the values that drove my decision then still stand today, your collective voice rang loud and clear and I heard you!
I did not realize how important the reusable aspect of the jars was to so many of our restaurant guests for use as containers for storing buttons, screws, herbs, jams, and so on. I also came to realize that changing the shape of the package meant that I changed the “social life” of the sauce – it no longer fit in the door of the refrigerator and got lost on the shelves.
I want to thank all of you who expressed your thoughts and suggestions by comment card, email, our web site blog, and our web site comment form. Your ideas and viewpoints are very important to me. I also want to thank you for your patience for the time it took to bring the jars back.
Beginning this week, Yumm! Sauce will once again be available in the 8.2 oz. glass jars. Initially, the jars will be available at the four Eugene Café Yumm! restaurant locations. In order to assess customer response and preference, the 6 oz. plastic tubs will also be available at the restaurant locations. The next step will be to roll out the jars to all Café Yumm! restaurant locations statewide in the coming weeks. The 6 oz. plastic tubs will continue to be available at selected grocery stores throughout Oregon and western Washington.
As you can see in the picture, the jars have a new look with redesigned labels! (Mary Ann says, “They’re gorgeous!”) We hope you like the new look.
As always, we’d love to hear what you think.
- Mark Beauchamp, President and Co-Founder
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Some exciting news! Yumm! Sauce in jars is back as of today in all four Eugene restaurants: http://bit.ly/7aWve5
This comment was originally posted on Twitter
I live in Portland..any idea when we will see the glass jars up here? Those plastic tubs are so wasteful! Please bring the jars to Portland!! Please!!
Thank you! I am happy the jars are back! I reuse the jars for spices, they are just the right size. Now I can go back to buying yumm sauce.
Thank you, thank you , thank you for returning to the glass jars. I just logged onto the website after buying Garlic Yumm sauce today at my nearby New Seasons for making homemade yumm wraps. After transferring the sauce to one of my old yumm glass jars and wiping out that part that would otherwise be wasted on the plastic, with my finger, I was just curious. Now let’s just hope that the glass jars make it to New Seasons- not very cost effective for me to drive across Portland to pick it up in the restaurant. I make many batches of freezer jam in the summer and the glass jars are the perfect size!
Please bring the glass jars back in Portland grocery stores! We miss them and get to Eugene very infrequently! (In fact, our Yumm consumption has (sadly) gone down because we HATE fussing with the awful plastic tub covers! They’re terrible!) What we’d really love are the big bottles up here! Those little tubs just don’t last.
Yay! I’m glad the plastic tubs are going away, we wasted so much delicious sauce because these ended up at the back of the fridge. I didn’t realize other people had that same problem
Thank you so much for changing to the jars… those work so much better!! Now you need to jar the Sauce for the Asian Slaw!!! I HATE COLE SLAW but I loooove Cafe Yumm’s… thanks to that sauce!! Yummmm