R.W. Garcia

T. Marzetti Company has plants across the United States that make a variety of quality food products, including Texas toast, garlic bread, egg noodles, croutons, veggie dips and the company s specialty: salad dressing. In 1896, Teresa Marzetti arrived in the United States from Florence, Italy, and started a small Italian restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. Marzetti's became a local favorite, especially among Ohio State University students, and grew to become a four-star restaurant and one of the finest dining experiences in the Midwest. By 1955, Marzetti s dressings had become so renowned that the upstairs kitchen of the restaurant became a full-scale factory. The Marzetti brand of salad dressings was soon found in grocery stores throughout Ohio. After Teresa Marzetti's death in 1972, the restaurant closed forever, but her passion for quality still lives in T. Marzetti's many salad dressings and other specialty food products. A Lancaster Colony Company, T. Marzetti Company has a number of factories, including one in Milpitas, Calif.

Founded in 1987, Santini Foods is a food manufacturing and packaging company that specializes in olive oil, condensed milk, and chocolate and pancake syrups. It produces sweetened condensed milk under the Santini brand, as well as supplies it to other private labels. The company manufactures full cream, skim and filled condensed milks in a range of sizes. It provides packaging of caramel syrups and dark and white chocolates for food service companies. Santini Foods offers organic Italian food items, such as pasta, pesto, pasta sauce, balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. In addition, it provides organic syrups in maple, apricot, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry and honey pecan flavors. Santini Foods is located in San Lorenzo, Calif.

Frito-Lay is the convenient food division of PepsiCo. It is an international company that markets and sells corn and potato chips and other snack food items. It was formed in 1961 as a result of the merger between The Fritos Company and Atlanta-based H.W. Lay & Company. Frito-Lay has a staff of more than 44,000 employees and over 30 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States. The company markets and sells its products under the brand names of Lay's, Fritos, Cheetos, Baken-ETS, Ruffles, Doritos, Funyuns, Tostitos, Baked Lay's, Sunchips, Munchies, Oberto and Rold Gold. It offers a variety of products, such as cheese-flavored snacks, tortilla chips, onion-flavored rings, natural and organic snacks, cookies and meat snacks.