For more than 25 years, Ladle & Leaf has served soups, sauces, and prepared foods to thousands of guests a day across the Bay Area. That operating history is what makes us a different kind of manufacturing partner. Bring a recipe, choose one of ours, or ask us to help you meet a need. We'll make you the right product and scale it to production.
Trusted by grocery, foodservice, and institutional partners across the West Coast
Ladle & Leaf specializes in kettle cooking with 25+ years of operating history, producing custom soups, sauces, and prepared foods for retail private label, foodservice, healthcare, and education.
Based in Oakland, California, we're positioned to serve West Coast customers with shorter lead times than national manufacturing partners. Customers bring a recipe, a concept, or a culinary challenge, and our team of chefs and operations team will scale it to production.
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Whether you have a finished recipe or a blank page, we meet you where you are and scale it to production-grade volume.
Bring a proven formula or concept. We handle sourcing, scale-up, production, packaging, and food safety so you can grow confidently without capital risk.
Explore co-manufacturing →Choose from 150+ recipes proven through daily restaurant service. A faster path to a branded line, customized, packaged, and shelf-ready under your label.
See private label →Restaurant-quality soups in bulk formats for delis, kitchens, and institutional service, consistent batch after batch, with the operational efficiency you need.
Bulk foodservice →Private label & branded soup programs, refrigerated and frozen.
Bulk soups & sauces for restaurants, grocery delis, universities, and commissaries.
Allergen-controlled, texture-appropriate, nutrition-aware formulas.
Crowd-pleasing, compliant menus for campus & K-12 dining.
We're SQF Fundamentals certified, USDA and FDA registered, and have been USDA and CCOF organic handling certified since 2005. Our verified allergen-free program supports complex free-from formulations.
Certified food-safety management system.
Operating under federal manufacturing oversight.
Certified organic handling since 2005.
Every recipe in our catalog has been sold and refined across daily retail service, not developed in a lab and shelved. Here's a taste of the range.
Share your recipe, concept, or idea, your channel, and your volume goals.
Our culinary team matches or refines the formula and proofs it for production.
We source, batch, cook, and package to spec under full food-safety controls.
Shelf-ready product ships from our Oakland facility, and grows with your program.
Tell us about your product and channel. We'll come back with a clear path to production, and an honest read on lead times, costs, and minimums.