A Business to Fit Your Passion and Lifestyle

Finding a unique niche community that seeks out your product/services and connects with you on a personal level, should be the goal for all franchise concepts around the country. Oil & Vinegar distinguishes itself in the franchise industry because unlike the restaurant concepts, it connects with people involved in all facets of the food industry. Whether it be chefs, food enthusiasts, or the average “foodie”; Oil & Vinegar is a great opportunity to get involved in their own business and still have an attractive lifestyle prospect.

Oil & Vinegar gives people who are looking for a unique, exotic, international concept, a chance to have that option here in the U.S. While you may live in America, it is always nice to experience international cultures, foods, and lifestyles. Joining the Oil & Vinegar brand is a great way to enjoy international flair on a day-to-day basis and also to share that experience with your community and neighbors.

Many entrepreneurs are interested in being a part of the “food community” when selecting their own business venture. Often people immediately think the restaurant industry is the only way to delve into this field. Unlike the restaurant industry, which requires extensive hours, retail concepts allow a more attractive lifestyle and “family-friendly” appeal. Oil & Vinegar combines the best of the both worlds allowing the opportunity to be involved in the food industry, for passionate foodies, and an accessible lifestyle that the entire family can be a part of.

Being able to tackle your life-long passion and open a business that fits your lifestyle are two incredibly important issues to explore before committing to a business investment. Oil & Vinegar allows the chefs and food enthusiasts to bring a unique concept of which they are passionate about to their local communities, giving consumers an exotic retail experience never done before.

Passionate About Pasta

At Oil & Vinegar, celebrating Holidays, new seasons, and events is always an exciting time for us. We are entering a new season and to celebrate the beginning of fall, we have launched our newest promotion: “Passionate About Pasta”. As autumn is approaching quickly and it's back to school, back to routine and back to basics. Switching back to a routine is never easy, but Oil & Vinegar can help with quick, easy to use pasta recipes that are delicious and always a crowd pleaser.

Discover a new world of flavor prepared with old world traditions in our San Marzano Tomato Sauces available in 4 flavors; Marinara, Seafood Marinara, Artichoke and Garlic with Zucchini Flower

Our pastas are made by an expert artisanal pasta maker and contain wheat germ in the semola (bran) that the large commercial pasta makers are not able to use, giving our pasta an extraordinary, unique taste. The pasta is slow pressed, laid out by hand and slow dried at a low temperature to capture the fresh tastes. Available in traditional, squid ink, garlic & basil, saffron, tomato, truffle, lemon & pepper, salmon and chili pepper.

Here are some customized recipes for your enjoyment, come visit Oil & Vinegar for some of these ingredients:

Papardelle Pasta Salad
Cook 1 bag of Tomato Papardelle Pasta according to the package directions, drain, rinse with cold water and mix with a bit of Extra Virgin Olive Oil to keep the pasta from sticking together. Add 1 ½ cups of diced vine ripe tomatoes, 8 oz package, drained of boccocini mozzarella, or 1 large fresh mozzarella, diced, 1 ½ Tbsp Miscuglio spice mix, ¼ cup Bonsecco Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 1 Tbsp Garlic Olive Oil and 1 Tbsp series 7 balsamic vinegar. Mix well and serve cold

Seafood Tubetti
Cook 1 package of Tubetti al Limone e Pepe Pasta according to the package. In another pan sauté in Extra Virgin Olive Oil 3 cloves of crushed garlic together with 2 stalks of chopped celery and 4 ounces of fresh tuna. When the tuna is fully cooked add ½ glass of white wine and 2 Tbsp of Muscat Vinegar. Puree the mixture in a blender until creamy. Return the mixture to the pan, add 1 can of tuna fish and 6 Pomodori Sunpomo, cook until hot. Mix the sauce well with the Tubetti al Limone e Peppe pasta.

Tagliolini with truffle salsa
Lightly sauté two sliced cloves of garlic and 4 chilli peppers finely chopped or 2 tsp of crushed chillies in extra virgin olive oil. When the garlic begins to become transparent, remove from heat. Cook the tagliolini in plenty of boiling water with sea salt, ‘al dente’. Drain the pasta and add it to the oil, garlic and chilli, add one jar of truffle salsa and draw the oil mixture and truffle salsa through the pasta until evenly coated. Top with grated parmesan cheese.

Oil & Vinegar Surprise Gift Bags

The big question from our guests this summer is when are you doing the bags again?! Well, for those of you that are not familiar, twice a year Oil & Vinegar has fun with surprise bags and they’re starting next week! Created after a Japanese shopping tradition, ‘fukibukuro’ or ‘lucky bags’ are the highlight of every sale event. The bags are full of interesting items at incredible prices.

The surprise bags at Oil & Vinegar are filled with five items from the store. Usually it is a combination of three food items and two non-food items and it can be anything from oils, vinegars, dried herbs, sauces, dip dishes, kitchen gadgets, and more. You have to be adventurous, but it is a great way to try new products, and, if you’re lucky, you’ll find one of the four gift cards that are hidden in the bags in every store.

The bags are double the value, so a $20 bag has $40 worth of products in it, and so on. They are packed randomly, so not even the staff in the shops knows what is in each bag or where the gift cards might be. It is so fun to see the excitement about this promotion. Besides our guests who have experienced it before, asking “when are the surprise bags coming?”, when the promotion starts, some guests will buy one for themselves and one for a friend, or co-worker just to brighten their day. Everyone has their own technique in finding the perfect bag; it might be closing your eyes and picking, wandering around lifting them and picking by weight, or just grabbing the first one you see! Anyway, it is fun and exciting and our most popular promotion ever!