Pellicano Specialty Foods grew from a home-kitchen sauce business into a Buffalo, New York manufacturing company that makes sauces and related food products for its own brands, restaurants, and retailers. Serving the Buffalo area for over 30 years, it specializes in helping customers bring recipes to market through custom packing, co-packing, and private-label production. Its Italian-inspired pasta and pizza sauces sit alongside the long-running Ferrante’s chicken wing sauce brand, whose original formula dates to the 1980s.
Jule's Tomato SauceJule’s Tomato Sauce makes small-batch jarred tomato sauces from the recipe Pa Vitelli first cooked at his Jersey City restaurant in 1962. After Jule’s Italian Restaurant served the Westside Avenue neighborhood for more than 40 years, his children brought that unchanged sauce back to home kitchens, including the red sauce used in the restaurant’s famously towering lasagna. The company also supplies its marinara to food-service kitchens in five-gallon packaging.
Giovanni FoodsRooted in a DeMent family speakeasy and nearly a century of cooking, Giovanni Foods makes tomato-based sauces and salsas while serving as a manufacturing partner for brands and retailers. The family-owned company grew from its grandmother’s Italian recipes and a kitchen-and-garage sauce business into a 174,000-square-foot Baldwinsville facility with six packaging lines. Its food-science and culinary team develops products collaboratively, from a customer’s recipe or from scratch, with an SQF Level-2-certified operation.BALDWINSVILLE, NY
Private Label FoodsPrivate Label Foods began in 1989, when Bonnie Lavorato hand-bottled her BBQ sauce in a Rochester home kitchen. The company has kept that kitchen-table character while growing into a 125,000-square-foot, SQF-certified facility that helps brands bring recipes from early development into dependable production. It works with grocery programs, foodservice operators, and emerging brands that need a consistent manufacturing partner.ROCHESTER, NY
The Grill Pantry LLCThe Grill Pantry LLC began with Paul and Carmen’s grilled chicken wings and now makes flavor-packed barbecue sauces in Gansevoort, New York. Its original WIPLASH! wing sauce sparked the business after party guests kept asking for more, and the lineup has since grown to include sauces such as the smoky-spicy GET JACKED! and sweet-tangy HAT TRICK!.