High-Quality Food Co-Packers
Unmatched Quality & Consistency
Serving large numbers of customers can be a real challenge for those in the foodservice business, such as restaurant chains and grocery stores. Even though they know the value of offering high-quality food, these businesses don’t always have the bandwidth or resources to deliver on their promises. This is where having experience food co-packers as partners can make a tremendous difference. As one of the industry’s top co-packers for food products, Walker’s Fresh Foods can prepare a wide range of dishes in quantities large or small for your business.
Our food contract packing specialties include cold mix solutions, kettle cooking, retort cooking and more. We stand out from other co-packing food manufacturing vendors because we’re committed to providing our clients with the highest-quality products. We use only the best ingredients and follow the most stringent food safety standards in the entire industry. In addition, our creative and experienced culinary team will work closely with you to meet your recipe development needs no matter how specific they are.
What Is Food Co-Packing?
Food co-packing is the contracted manufacturing of specific food products through an external production partner. Third party food manufacturers are typically more equipped to handle large-scale sourcing, preparing, and packaging of predetermined food products. Simply put, food co-packing services give restaurants, grocery stores, and foodservice businesses a way to scale the production of their own product.
Food co-packing is advantageous for many brands because these third parties bring capabilities in manufacturing and packaging that smaller kitchens and restaurants may not have themselves. Depending on your needs, location and plans for future growth, a co-packing partnership can provide you with specific expertise and take some of the burden off your shoulders.
In addition to ensuring the quality and consistency of your food products, working with a reliable co-packing partner like Walker’s offers you numerous other benefits, such as:
- Knowledge of food safety & regulatory concerns (GFSI-certified)
- Scalable volume of production as needed
- Quick and efficient co-packing processes
- Years of experience means diverse production capabilities
- ROI from outsourced operations
- And much more!
How It Works
Here at Walker’s Fresh Foods, we take a comprehensive approach to your contract packing needs to ensure no time is wasted and all steps are carried out properly. Under the close supervision of our QA team, we take the necessary steps to accurately replicate and scale your food creations to meet your precise needs:
- Introductory call for learning about your operations and brainstorming solutions
- Initial pricing and one to two weeks of R&D work
- Identifying any supply chain concerns or potential sourcing issues
- Small-batch recipe testing (usually about one to two months)
- Large-scale test batch (done within one to two months, free of charge)
Our specialty is ready-to-eat foods that have a typical shelf life of 35 to 60 days, but we also have the capabilities to be your frozen food co-packer, retort co-packer, or fill any other co-packing role you may need.
Co-Pack With Walker’s Today
At Walker’s, we share our customers’ passion for food and understand their need to differentiate and stay ahead of constantly changing food trends. We have 75 years of experience in producing a wide variety of products, with over 75 different products produced weekly. Our years of experience in co-packing and private labeling offers enhanced flexibility, whether we work closely with your culinary experts to maintain existing recipes or create new and unique offerings to represent your brand.
Headquartered in North Kansas City, MO, we’re in a prime location to serve you wherever you are in the country. Contact us today to learn more about how we can work together to fulfill your contract packaging needs.
