Tampa based Eat Fresco has expanded into Publix stores

At the end of July, the Tampa-based prepared foods company launched its products in 21 Publix stores.

The stores — in Tampa, Lakeland and surrounding areas — will sell Eat Fresco’s fresh, prepared meals such as the salmon dish, Caribbean Style Jerk Chicken and Cuban Inspired Pork Loin.

Eat Fresco, started in 2014 by Rob and Tracy Povolny, was already in 50 stores in Florida, but the Publix addition represents a big step forward for the company.

Easy, healthy meals in no time

The days of the Swanson TV-dinner is long gone. Eat Fresco offers fully-cooked microwaveable meals that are fresh, healthy and made right here in our area. Eat Fresco is in 70 retail stores throughout Florida including select Publix grocery stores in Tampa. Co-founder Tracy Povolny joined Great Day Live to talk about her growing company.

Healthy, convenient prepared meals are crafted in Tampa

This local factor is key to Fresco Foods, a young business that operates the Eat Fresco brand of meals that are sold at stores like Winn-Dixie, Earth Fare, Rollin’ Oats in St. Petersburg and more. Husband and wife Robert and Tracy Povolny launched the company in February 2015 and spent the next two years raising capital to open the industrial kitchen/office space in March 2017. As I sit down to talk with them about the company after a tour of the space, they keep repeating words like “clean,” “local,” “real food” — buzz words of our current food moment.