Business & Tech
The Apples Are Bad, But The Ketchup is Good
Bad Apple is gaining recognition for its good ketchup, which could soon be available outside the restaurant.

There are no ketchup packets at Northcenter’s Bad Apple. No Heinz and certainly no clogged glass bottles that require a knife and frontal lobotomy for ketchup extraction.
Instead, the burger bar’s chef and owner Craig Fass makes his own tomato condiment, in a grueling six-hour process that includes three simple ingredients.
Gapers Block took a look at what makes the Bad Apple condiment so special, a recipe that took Fass 18 months to develop.
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The ketchup reflects a larger, all-natural theme. Everything in Bad Apple is preservative and chemical-free, keeping to the ever-growing natural and local movement.
Fass makes his ketchup two to three times a week for fans that consume a whopping 120 gallons a month—that’s the size of a 4 by 2-foot fish tank.
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