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Choice Food Group, Inc. is a Nashville-based food service company that represents a portfolio of food service companies, comprised of wholesale and retail distributors, manufacturers, processors and marketers.

Choice Food Group is a privately-held investment company that has made investments in Tennessee’s established food institutions. It currently specializes in food service distribution with Choice Food Distributors as well as food manufacturing and marketing with Choice Food of America. A complement to our food distribution business is Hobson Food Services which specializes in customized processing and distribution of poultry and beef products. Nashville Cash & Carry allows our wholesale distribution business to broaden into the retail market with its outlet store, offering the public wholesale priced institutional foods and party supplies.

The group is led by entrepreneur Michael D. Shmerling as principal investor and Jerry Walker as chief executive officer, along with their team of food service executives.

Choice Food Group was ranked among the Top 100 fastest growing and emerging companies in Tennessee in 2007 and 2008 by Business Tennessee Magazine. Additionally, it was a 2008 Future 50 award recipient, ranked by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce as being among the 50 fastest-growing privately held companies in the Nashville, Tenn. area.