Considered a high-end manufacturer with excellent food safety, security and financial strength, the company helps customers coordinate everything from recipes to packaging. The company can create items and fine-tune existing products. The privately held family business manufactures frozen pizzas and other food products for several big companies, including large grocery store retailers, large and small foodservice operators, delis and supermarkets across the country.
Nation Pizza and Foods has roots in the pizzeria business and is still likely the only pizza manufacturer that continues to operate restaurants: Marcello’s in Northbrook, Ill., Father & Son Italian Kitchen in Skokie, Ill., and Marcello’s Father & Son in Chicago. And that’s the way it started out, in 1947. Marshall Bauer and son, Jay, now the co-CEOs, established Father & Son Pizza, one of the most successful home-delivery pizzerias in the country.