Flying Food Group

Flying Food Group is an airline caterer based in Chicago, Illinois. The company says it provides 120 million meals a year. It serves more than 75 airlines and over 4,500 retail stores. The company has been in business for more than 40 years.

The company was founded in 1983 in Chicago with a single kitchen and one airline customer. The founder started it after being served a half frozen sweet roll on a domestic flight. She led its expansion for over 30 years. The company says it gives 100 percent of its profits to a charitable foundation that supports healthcare, education, legal assistance and immigration rights.

For airlines, the company says the world's top carriers rely on it to keep passengers satisfied and to support their brands. Its airline work is built around a food safety culture and a restaurant style approach to inflight meals.

Its retail catering arm is Fresh Food Solutions. It makes private label packaged foods and ready to eat meals for multiple markets. The retail arm is SQF certified. The company also makes shelf stable meals. Modified atmosphere packaged food can last 15 to 60 plus days, and frozen food can last 180 plus days. A joint venture with Frankenberg makes frozen meals.

Its onboard retail business runs through a joint venture with Most. This offers retail and payment options for businesses that serve customers on the move. The offer includes a POS app, a payment kit and a customer store app.

The company says it uses electric support vehicles and has converted its catering truck fleet in Los Angeles to propane. It recycles large metal, boxes and corrugated cardboard, sends waste to digesters, and has moved to LED lighting. Working with Virgin Atlantic, it says it has cut the use of raw plastic items by 80 percent.

Its locations on the contact page include Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hartford, Newark, New York, Denver, Dallas, the Washington DC area, Orlando, Miami and three places in Hawaii.

Services

• Airline catering
• Retail catering
• Private label packaged foods
• Ready to eat meals
• Shelf stable meals
• Frozen meals
• Onboard retail
• Payment kit
• POS app
• Customer store app