When The Really Cool Food Company built a $24 million plant in Cambridge City, Ind. last year, officials were very picky about inspection systems and checkweighers.

Refrigerated deli salads and entree processor Blue Ridge Farms, Brooklyn, N.Y., said it hired Mark Kleinman as CEO.

Meat a new friend! Jack Daniel's Properties Inc., Louisville, is partnering with Completely Fresh Foods Inc. (CFF), Montebello, Calif., on a national retail launch of Jack Daniel's ready-to-eat meat entrees.

New features at Hormel Foods Corp.'s consumer Web site (www.hormel.com) let consumers download and print their own coupons for retail deli sandwich meats (55 cents), pepperoni (55 cents), microwave bacon, party trays and even refrigerated entrees ($2.00).

The Really Cool Food Company LLC, a Cambridge City, Ind., processor of refrigerated entrees, sides and salads, has merged with Renaissance Food Group LLC.

Its global slogan reads, “Good Food. Good Life.” For that matter, CPG giant Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, could take it further and add “good year” to the list.

You could say that it was only natural that Hot Cuisine America has emerged to supply refrigerated entrees and meal components.

Supply and demand - it’s the most fundamental of all economic principles.

But what if a company finds a demand with no supply? Well, if the company is anything like New York’s Really Cool Foods (RCF), it answers the demand itself.