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Zivah Ring is president of Blue Point 2Go, an internet-based seafood shipping and delivery service that also creates corporate gift packages.
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Zivah Ring wants America to have a taste of Baltimore.
The 50-year-old president and founder of BluePoint2Go, King ships fresh crab products all across the country to consumers who want to enjoy a full plate of what Crab Town has to offer.
Founded in late November, Ring’s company is an Internet-based business that she runs out of her home near the Owings Mills location of Maryland Blue Point Crab House.
“I talked to [Steve Ring, her husband and part owner of Blue Point] about doing a Web site for his company but he liked what he was doing,” Ring said. “So I did it on my own.”
Maryland Blue Point Crab was originally a business in Patterson Park, started by Herb Green in 1951. Developing a loyal consumer base over the decades, Steve Ring, a business neighbor of the Green family, worked with the Greens to move the business to the suburbs in 1999. That year, the Owings Mills location opened under his guidance and continued developing with a new Westminster location a few years later.
Last November Zivah Ring became the newest member of the Maryland Blue Point Crab family.
Ring said everything she hand-shipped is fresh, no freezing of the product and each shipment would be next-day delivered if she received the order by her 11 a.m. deadline.
Combined her niche with launching her own Web site, Ring focused initially on being a businesses to businesses supplier of corporate gifts, platters and personalized gifts.
From there, she has focused more on marketing to individuals across the Internet in places like Nevada, Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Arkansas, New York and Pennsylvania.
“I was so happy to receive this scrumptious gift from my sister,” said BluePoint2Go customer Linda Haddaway, who posted on the review portion of the company’s Web site. “I will now order them for myself and for my friends.”
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This Thursday, The Examiner turns one. In celebration the paper will profile five companies that have also joined the local community in the last calender year. From large corporations who moved into the area, to small locally owned businesses, each day there will be a different company profiled in the Business Section.
» Today: Blue Point 2Go
» Tuesday: Valique’s Fabric Boutique
» Wednesday: Challenge Financial Investors Corp.
» Thursday: Boscov’s
» Friday: PEI WEI
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This guy is married tries to bang his employees as much as he can. A real bad guy.
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Gaza George said:
Let them eat and drink. Too many hemp products can be harmful to the multinational restaurant bottom line. Go liquor holes.
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Examiner Reader said:
I was very surprised by the comment. When we go to eat at Chef Paolino, I always take the kids to a table first and either my husband or I order for all of us. Our first time there, we all took a menu to a table and then my husband went up and ordered for the family. I think the writer just misunderstood.
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On the evening of 09/07/07 my family and I went to eat at this restaurant for dinner at 5:30 pm. Being our first time there I questioned if they would seat us or should we seat ourselves. The employee advised me we had to go order our food then we could seat ourselves. I ask him if I could please sit first. In my arms was my handicapped 5 year old daughter who from Spinal Bifida can not walk, my husband was carrying our 3 month old son and I had 3 other children with me ranging from 7 to 9. I explained to him I could not continue to hold her and go order my food due to her wait. It would be impossible to hold her and order, pay, ect. Even after explaining why I needed to be seated first he refused to do so. My family and I had to leave that establishment and to say the least was very dissatisfied with our first experience at the Chef Paolino Cafe.I believe this restaurant needs to change there process of ordering and seating customers. This process is very difficult for the handicapped
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Anon said:
Chef Alex Powell's enthusiasm for his work and his creations comes across well in this article. As a food connoisseur and a lover of island flavors, it will be my priority to visit the 701 Restaurant. The chef takes me back to my own roots where the belief is that you can never go wrong with simple, natural ingredients. Way to go chef and welcome to DC!
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Sounds like a typical visit to most restaruants these days. Steak are always "iffy" I try to avoind them because a chef will tell you fat on a steak helps retain juices, but I don't like fat. Also, if I see a sauce on anything I avoid it. especailly at a place where I have never eaten. I had a friend that was a professional chef. I was grilling steaks at my house one day and asked him to show me how he made his steak taste so good. He rubbed both sides with salt.
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