Edgewood, NY
131 Heartland Blvd, Edgewood, NY 11717
Long Island plant — breakfast and related sandwich co-pack capacity, warehouse, and HQ.
About · Global Food Solutions™
Manufacturing you can diligence.
Right Start Foods™ is brought to you by Global Food Solutions — family-owned manufacturing with dual East Coast plants, SQF Level 2 discipline, and an honest facility story: FDA-registered, not a USDA inspected meat plant.
Facility honesty
What we are — and what we are not.
Buyers deserve plain language for procurement packets. We say the scope out loud.
- FDA-registered facility — registered food manufacturing, not a USDA inspected meat plant.
- SQF Level 2 — plant food-safety certification we stand behind.
- USDA further-processed commodity (cheese path for Melt Mates school sandwiches) is a separate program story — not a meat-plant claim.
Buyer takeaway: Use “FDA-registered · SQF Level 2” in diligence. Do not write “USDA meat plant.” Commodity sandwich utilization stays on the Melt Mates / Elena path.
Plant · Edgewood campus
Dual East Coast plants
Edgewood, NY · Hermitage, PA
Two company-owned manufacturing and cold-storage nodes — redundancy and channel reach on the East Coast. One dual-plant story, not two disconnected kitchens.
Hermitage, PA
2500 Freedland Road, Hermitage, PA 16148
Western PA plant — production depth and geography paired with Edgewood for dual-plant ship.
Plant visit is a named engagement path — talk Michael. Deeper plant photography lives in the capabilities lookbook.
Plant partners
Food-safety partners we name.
ASI · SQF · RK Environmental · Ecolab — food-safety and plant operations only. Ingredient suppliers stay unnamed on buyer pages.
Trust
ASI Food Safety
Food-safety partnership on the plant side.
SQF Level 2
Certified plant food-safety discipline.
RK Environmental
Pest-control program for plant ops.
Ecolab
Sanitation chemistry for production floors.
Two clear buyer paths
Co-pack or schools — not a black hole.
Co-pack under your brand
Finished sandwiches or bag / dry snack private label on platforms we already run. Melt Mates proves sandwich assembly — we don’t sell you Melt Mates as “your” brand on the co-pack path.
School / commodity path
Buy Right Start products for K-12 programs, school nutrition docs, and USDA commodity sandwiches → Elena. Parent brand spine → Right Start.
Right Start Foods™
The school brand GFS manufactures for.
Sell-as-is breakfast → Power Up kits → Melt Mates sandwiches — one parent spine with clear child-brand jobs. Open Right Start parent brand →