The Broaster Company markets and sells its products under various brand names, including Genuine Broaster Chicken, Broaster Recipe frozen foods and Bro-Tisserie. It serves various restaurants, supermarkets, bars, nightclubs, convenience stores and institutional food service operations through a network of authorized distributors. The company offers a wide range of food products, such as chicken wings, potato wedges, mushrooms, chicken gravies, muffins and pork chops. It manufactures a full line of specialty food service equipment that include pressure fryers, holding cabinets, radiant broilers, shortening filters, soup warmers and convection ovens. The company also offers a variety of accessories, including marinating tubs, landing and dump tables, potato wedgers, onion slicers and fryer accessory kits. The Broaster Company, established in 1954, is located in Beloit, Wis.
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Crest Foods specializes in dairy stabilizers, manufacturing and contract packaging. The company provides a wide range of ingredients to the food industry in all 50 states and produces approximately 150 private-label food products for 24-plus businesses. It offers buttermilk, cream cheese, yogurt, ice cream, sour cream, seasoning blends and specialty products. Crest Foods assists clients with cross-promotional items, line expansion, product development, kitchen testing, package design, material sourcing and procurement. The company s research and development team generates nutritional data, formula and ingredient statements. It has operated since 1946 and based in Ashton, Ill.
McCleary was established more than 40 years ago when Eugene Mac McCleary began making caramel corn. His caramel corn used a premium blend caramel that was handmade in single batches in individual copper kettles, the same way old-fashioned candy confectioners make candy. The caramel was then poured over fresh gourmet popcorn. The company still makes caramel corn, sold under the Mac s Copper Kettle brand, in the same way. McCleary s four recipe blends consists of old-fashioned caramel corn, caramel corn with peanuts, gourmet butter toffee corn and holiday blend caramel corn with pecans, the company s original recipe. Along with caramel corn, McCleary offers tortilla chips, cheese puffs, party mixes and other snack foods.
