The credentials and controls behind every batch, so your quality, food-safety, and compliance teams can say yes with confidence.
We pair a chef-driven approach to flavor with the documentation, controls, and certifications that institutional and retail buyers require.
From sourcing through packaging, every step is built to be repeatable and traceable.
The result: product that tastes like it came from a kitchen, made to the standards of a certified facility.
Our 25,000 sq ft facility in Oakland, CA is purpose-built around flexible recipes, batch cooking, and rapid chilling: the process and operations that make sophisticated recipes work at volume.
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Documentation available on request during your vendor onboarding.
Safe Quality Food certification covering our food-safety management system.
Registered and operating under federal food-manufacturing oversight.
Certified organic handling continuously since 2005.
Our verified allergen-free production program supports complex free-from formulations with documented controls and segregation.
Sanitation, segregation, and verification procedures designed around allergen risk, auditable and traceable batch to batch.
100% of finished products pass through integrated metal detection prior to shipping, with rejected units quarantined for review.
Formulations suited to healthcare, education, and retail programs where allergen integrity is non-negotiable.
We capture your recipe, concept, or challenge, plus channel, format, and label requirements.
Our culinary team develops or matches the formula and dials in taste, texture, and appearance.
We proof the formula in production equipment, validating yield, consistency, and food safety.
Approved specs move to full runs, packaged, documented, and shipped from our Oakland facility.
Tell us about your product and volume. Our culinary and operations teams will map the fastest, lowest-risk path to a shelf-ready product.