Jim Watkins was born in Virginia, grew up in Baltimore, lived in Minnesota for 20 years, has been in Seattle for 27 years. He’s been with the co-op for about two months. “I am the Food Service Manager for this store and when they open in Tacoma, I’m gonna be traveling between the stores. What I do here, is I work with prepared food, food people want to take home, convenient food. It makes people’s lives easier. That’s what I responsible for. Today we had a deep cleaning day, so we’re a little behind on production, so I’m playing catch up. I’m re imaging the food, because the food has always tasted good, but we’re trying to raise the quality, not only in taste, but in appearance. We’re trying to make the food more appealing to a broader range of people.”