An upper St. John River valley potato grower has a stake in the success of Lori Bourque’s business in Dieppe.
Bourque owns the franchise for the New York Fries restaurant chain in Champlain Place. The Toronto-based chain, with 197 locations mostly in Canada, slices, fries and serves up seven to eight million pounds of New Brunswick potatoes per year.
Grower Ben Brake and his son Jeremy Brake of Hillspring Farms in the Bath area supply these potatoes, a huge portion of the chain’s annual consumption of 22 million to 23 million pounds, New York Fries president Jay Gould said in an interview in St. Andrews this week.
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