| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Don Berdahl |
Chief Technology Officer | Profile |
We`re real people, using real ingredients, to make really good foods. Our young and fast-growing company focuses on state-of-the-art processes, eco-friendly initiatives and food safety as a priority. High pressure processing (HPP) is how we create preservative-free, great-tasting products with the best nutritional value, so our customers and retail partners can enjoy their food and their lives. Our mission at Good Foods is simple: to provide healthy and delicious food to people everywhere. We create meaningful relationships through trust and transparency and believe in taking the time to do things right. We`re committed to developing better foods that are made with high- quality ingredients, full of flavor and safe for everyone. We combine our culinary expertise with consumer research and food technology, so we can lead the food world and cultivate goodness within our products, employees, consumers and communities. People have always been our most important asset. Yes, we have a modern facility and sophisticated equipment, but Good Foods employees are the real reason for our success and why we received recognition from national media such as Good Housekeeping and GOOP. Through the years, our company has developed a skilled workforce of which we are very proud. We continue to rely on the talents and abilities of our people to help us grow.
In 1960, a small meat processing operation named Quaker Maid Meats was founded. Since then, this family-owned company has grown to over 100 workers in three production plants. Originally, wafer-thin-sliced beef filets (muscle steaks) were the company’s mainstay. Soon Quaker Maid added breaded veal and beef patties, primarily for the institutional and restaurant markets and began manufacturing a variety of other portion-controlled meat products. In 1968, the company acquired a parcel of land on Carroll Street in Reading, PA, where its main plant is still located. Growth continued with ""Buttered Beef Steaks"" and ""Cubed Beef Steaks,"" along with a solid muscle sandwich steak, hamburger patties and veal steaks. In the early 1970’s, rising beef prices created the need to develop a chopped and formed sandwich steak. This product became the company's largest mainstay growth item and allowed it to compete directly with national brand, Steak-umm®. Because of the sandwich steak's success, the first expansion of the Carroll Street plant also took place during this time. In late 1979, Quaker Maid formulated its version of the fully cooked Italian style meatball (later named Mama Lucia Italian Style Meatballs), adding another item to help customers fill out their orders. The company also designed a continuous meatball-forming, freezing operation that revolutionized the manufacturing process. The meatballs helped expand Quaker Maid’s market share on the Eastern seaboard and into the Chicago market. In 1985, the company purchased another production facility to accommodate the meatball growth. Within two years, additional production capacity was required to support the entire product line. In 1987 the company purchased additional land in Reading in preparation for a new facility. In 1990 ground was broken for a new 4,000-square-foot office building, additional 15,000 square feet of processing area, and 10,000 square feet of freezer and tempering room. In 2005 a third plant was built to again increase capacity, bringing Quaker Maid's total production facility size to over 110,000 square feet. Quaker Maid's product line is continuously updated and currently includes all-beef sandwich steaks and fully cooked meatballs that are quick and easy to prepare, nutritious, and packaged under a variety of brand labels. Distribution spans all the major supermarkets and many large food service establishments throughout the United States and Bermuda. Quaker Maid continually implements the newest technologies available to produce the highest quality products and enhance the plants’ safety and sanitary environment. Our quality assurance department has been certified by the United States Department of Agriculture to participate in their TQC (Total Quality Control) program. Although we are constantly monitored by the USDA, this certification shifts the major responsibility from federal meat inspectors to our own quality assurance staff. Today, Quaker Maid Meats, Inc. remains a family-operated business with an unswerving dedication to quality, value and service. Our goal remains simple: to provide superior portion-controlled frozen meat products, manufactured with the best natural ingredients available, delivered to our customers at a fair and reasonable price.
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Compass Group PLC is a world-leading food and support services company whose history can be traced back over 60 years. As a FTSE 100 listed company we generated an annual revenue of £17.8 billion in the year to 30 September 2015, operate in around 50 countries, employ over 500,000 people and serve over 4 billion meals every year. The company specialises in providing food and a range of support services across the core sectors of Business & Industry, Healthcare & Seniors, Education, Defence, Offshore & Remote, Sports & Leisure and Vending with an established brand portfolio. By combining fresh ideas with the industry’s greatest talent, we continue to set the standards for food and service excellence. Behind everything we do at Compass Group is a focus on Great People, Great Service and Great Results! This approach is key to our provision of food and support services to clients across the globe. Increasingly clients ask us to provide a consolidated range of support services as well. With experts in place to deliver hotel support services, cleaning, building maintenance, reception and security, to name but a few, the Compass team has all the skills clients need when outsourcing other non-core activities.