Over the past 40 years Villa Park-based Supreme Lobster, which supplies fresh fish to many of the top restaurants and retailers in Chicago, from Grace to Eataly, as well as vast quantities of frozen product in the food-service sector, has grown into the largest fish distributor in the U.S. A few years ago I shot video of its massive warehouses and spent a good deal of time talking with Carl Galvan, a former chef and line cook who handles the high-end restaurant accounts and made a name for himself back then pioneering the use of some new gadget called Twitter to let chefs know what was fresh off the boats (by way of O'Hare).
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