The pilot run and lack of bars

Sounds like a bad movie title. So, as I have been alluding to for about a month, we have been ramping up for our pilot run with our partner factory. On Monday, I took a day of leave from the G and traveled down to our future manufacturer and delivered all of the stuff to make our pilot run. This will consist of 300 bars of each flavor (fig, pear, cherry and Asian pear- we are shelving apricot and persimmon, RIP). Our major supplier of figs ran out a while back, so I had to scramble to find another supplier. I managed to, but they were unwilling to sell me a few cases of figs for the pilot run. So...I had to spend some serious dough to supply us with our figs so I can get the pilot run done.
This has left some of our vendors in a bind, since we can't make our Centurion Fig and Spartan Pear bars, and they want 'em. Dave's Meat and Produce of Tacoma are ACES and agreed to give us more time. I fear we may lose a vendor who warned me once that the shelf space is a luxury, and when she calls, I won't have product to deliver. This is a terrible position to be in, but I must take responsibility as the CO of Noble Bar and, if I must, lose one of my cornerstone accounts.
I share this with you all because I want you to know what we are going through as a small company. This is certainly not easy. But I believe in honesty, integrity, loyalty and courage. I will always be honest with the fans and customers of Noble Bar, through good times and bad. No matter what happens, I promise I won't let you all down and will continue to bring you the best snack bar on the market.

I've had to suspend web sales due to this issue, but once we have the pilot run finished, we will be back in business. After that, we're moving forward with full production of our 4 top sellers. After that? Well, I'm planning to expand outside of the Northwest.

As my father once astutely stated, "No guts, no air medals."