Choice Food of America Milestones

About Us Senior Management History & Growth

1967
Packaging plant at 189 Spence Lane in Nashville, Tenn. opened and was formerly named Mike Rose Foods.

1972 - 1999
Over the years, the business went through several changes, becoming home to: Shoney’s, Levmark Holdings, J.W. Childs, then IDF Holdings, a parent company to International Diverse Foods.

2000
IDF Holdings sold to Portion Pac, Inc., a H. J. Heinz Corp. subsidiary. The plant manufactured portion control and bulk food service items at this 155,000 square foot facility.

March 2006
H.J. Heinz Corp. announced that they we closing Portion Pac, Inc. at their Nashville packaging plant at the end of April, eliminating 200 jobs.

April 30, 2006
Choice Food Group acquired this Nashville packaging plant that previously housed food manufacturing operations for Portion Pac, Inc. A plan emerged to organize a new subsidiary of Choice Food Group called Choice Food of America, LLC, specializing in customer food solutions. The new company employed over 50 skilled manufacturing workers from Portion Pac’s Nashville workforce.

December 2006
Diversity Brands, a platform for brands seeking to increase their share of U.S. multi-cultural markets through consumer food products, becomes affiliated with Choice Food of America.

February 2007
Retains approval for a new national brand. Its "Mayberry Supper" product line proposal was approved by movie star Andy Griffith of the 1950's syndicated television show "Mayberry", and by the senior management of the television network CBS for distribution throughout the United States for all business channels, and for any food products, initially for three years.

March 2007
Choice Food of America, LLC and Vietti Foods Company, Inc. merged to become Choice Food of America, LLC The merger collapsed the business entity, Vietti Foods Company, but its products were continued under the Vietti brand as part of Choice Food of America.

May 2007
Launched its new product line "Mayberry's Finest" at the May 2007 Food Marketing Institute Show in Chicago. Products included baking mixes (cornbread, muffins, brownies, breadings and batters); table syrups and dressings; frozen yeast rolls; canned southern-seasoned vegetables and canned beef stew, chicken and dumplings, and chili.