Why Choose Preferred

The full service operation behind your foodservice program

Let us simplify your foodservice operation. Our dedicated foodservice professionals provide you fully prepared, nutritious, individually packaged meals that go from freezer to oven to your students trays-easily, safely and affordably.

A total support system for your school’s foodservice operation.

Why Choose Preferred
Why Choose Preferred

Comprehensive, cost-effective solution

One fixed price maintains your budget with a full service that:
  • Efficiently utilizes your labor
  • Minimizes nonessential costs
  • Reduces product waste
  • Maximizes utilization of USDA commodities
  • Requires no equipment capital investment
  • Provides menu planning that fulfills all USDA menu guidelines
Why Choose Preferred

Classically trained chefs

Our classically-trained chefs bring talent, knowledge, a deep commitment and a unique expertise to the quality and safety of the food they create for the clients we serve.
"When you do things right, quality and freshness come through"
– Matthew F. Becker, Corporate Executive Chef
Why Choose Preferred

Food safety is a high priority

We employ a strictly-enforced safety system with environmentally controlled production and in-house microbiological testing from raw materials to finished products.
  • Meal packages are safety-sealed
  • Daily USDA inspection of production facilities
  • Food safety education for your employees
  • Flash frozen to preserve freshness, flavor, nutritional value and quality

When it comes to food safety, there is no compromise.

Our Brands

At Preferred Meal Systems, we will strive to keep the dining experience for school children healthy, fresh and fun while creating a kid-friendly branded eating experience. We continue to be innovative with new brands and menu items that have been kids tested and approved and will continue to develop a variety of new products that not only have bright and colorful packaging, but are also delicious and nutritious. Some of Preferred Meal Systems’ successful brands include:

Our Brands

Brands Kids Know

Our customers are children that are influenced by color, presentation, packaging, and advertising.  They have an expectation of healthy name brand products of commercial quality that appear child friendly, and that are known to them. At Preferred Meal Systems, the children’s comfort level will start with our suppliers, most of whom are household recognizable brand names. They include:

Our Brands