Less than a year after launching Dock to Dish, a community-supported fishery bringing same-day seafood to its subscribers, Sean Barrett, the company’s co-founder, is diving headfirst into the restaurant industry.
In January, Mr. Barrett and his team of fishermen completed North America’s first restaurant-supported fishery (RSF), after a full, three-month season on the docks. The RSF, like a community supported fishery, gets its legs from the farm-to-table business model, where subscribers pay an advanced membership fee and receive locally grown produce, or in this case fish, on a weekly basis.
“We’re basically taking our CSF to the next level and applying it to restaurants,” said Mr. Barrett, who spent his childhood fishing on the Shinnecock Canal and has spent the past 25 years fishing in Montauk. “We looked at the [farm-to-table] business model and realized that this is the missing piece to the puzzle.”
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