The Fresher the Better Quality is our motto! “If it was any fresher it would still be swimming”. Seafood arrives daily to our seven store locations and is hand cut by our professional staff - fully trimmed to the high standards our customers insist on. “If it is not the best then send it to the rest”! We live by this….only top of the catch and grade A seafood will be accepted.
A Highly Trained Staff
Dave’s Marketplace employees over 30 full time/part-time fish mongers with over 100 years of seasoned seafood experience.Our service staff pride themselves on their seafood knowledge and understanding their customer needs by breaking down common objectives of buying seafood at the supermarket level such as:
• How much fish do I need?
• Confusion over names of fish
• How do I cook this fish?
• How do I know if it is really fresh?
• What fish is good for my diet or health needs?
We can reduce these objections by being proactive with education, the more that our customers know about seafood, the more encouraged they will be to try to cook it more often in their homes. For this reason we have established a comprehensive “Seafood Training Program” that must be attended by all our seafood managers. The training addresses such topics as;
• Why seafood spoils?
• Seafood Statistics
• Salmon University
• Scallops
• Customer Service
• Shrimp University
• Proper Cooking
• Product Knowledge
Professional Seafood Buyers
Our professional seafood buyers personally travel to the Boston Seafood Market at least three times a week, hand selecting each fish and transporting it back to our seven locations on the same day! He also has extensive contacts all over the world that enables Dave’s Marketplace to have seafood flown into our local airport for same day pick-up! We have contacts specifically in Alaska that supply us with the freshest year round seafood available. We explore all avenues to buy the best seafood for our customers.
Our contacts also have local roots with fishermen trawling up and down Narragansett Bay for the freshest, finest lobsters available anywhere. Our fresh swordfish is caught off Block Island sound whenever possible! By going directly to the fishing ports in Boston, New Bedford, Galilee and Warwick Neck we ensure the best in quality, selection, and price is ascertained.
