The Growth Manufacturing Partner for Chefs and Food Brands Ready to Scale
Catalyst Foods is a USDA inspected food manufacturer in Sumner, Washington, producing 10,000 to 15,000 pounds of cooked protein and up to 12,000 ready to eat meals every week for retailers, foodservice operators, and growing food brands across the United States.
The Growth Manufacturing Partner for Chefs and Food Brands Ready to Scale
Catalyst Foods is a USDA inspected food manufacturer in Sumner, Washington, producing 10,000 to 15,000 pounds of cooked protein and up to 12,000 ready to eat meals every week for retailers, foodservice operators, and growing food brands across the United States.
Your Recipe Is Ready. Your Kitchen Is Not.
You built something people want to order again. Now the volume you need is bigger than the space, staff, or equipment you have. Most co-packers either want more scale than you have yet, or they can only handle small batches and cannot grow with you later. That gap is where good products stall. Catalyst Foods exists to close that gap. We are a USDA inspected food manufacturer built to take a product from a working recipe to real production volume, without asking you to choose between craft and capacity.
Fresh Meat Production
Portion controlled steaks, chops, and poultry, cut and packaged to your specification.
Custom Packaging
Packaging built around how your product will actually be sold, from bulk foodservice
formats to retail ready trays.
Ready to Eat Meals
Bulk cooked proteins, protein based salads, and complete meal components,
produced for delis, cafeterias, quick service restaurants, and retail hot bar programs.
Recipe Creation and Development
Chef led development to turn a concept, or a recipe that only exists at home kitchen scale, into something that holds up in commercial production.
One Manufacturing Partner, Five Ways to Scale Co-Packing.
We produce your recipe under USDA inspection, at the volume your business needs now, with room to grow.
How We Work With You, in Three Steps
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Share your product
Tell us what you are making and where you want volume to go. We look at the recipe, the packaging format, and the sourcing requirements before we talk numbers.
We prepare it for scale
If the recipe needs adjustment to run at volume, our chef and food science team works through that with you, so the product that reaches production tastes like the one you started with.
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Production begins, and grows with you
We reserve capacity as your volume grows, rather than treating every order as a one time run. You get a manufacturing partner, not just a vendor.
What Happens If Production Cannot Keep Up
A great product that cannot scale does not fail because the recipe was wrong. It fails because the business could not fulfill the order that mattered. A retailer places a bigger order and you cannot supply it. A foodservice account wants consistency across a thousand servings and your kitchen was built for fifty. That is the point where good products get shelved, not because customers stopped wanting them, but because nobody could make enough of them, safely and consistently, in time.
With Catalyst Foods, that ceiling moves. You get to spend your time on the product, the menu, and the next account, while we handle the part that requires a 20,000 square foot USDA inspected facility to do correctly.
20,000 +
square feet of production and cold storage.
10,000 to 15,000
pounds of cooked protein produced weekly.
USDA
inspected facility.
HACCP
compliant food safety program.
Built on Real Capacity, Not Just a Promise
Catalyst Foods operates a 20,000 square foot USDA inspected facility in Sumner, Washington, equipped with commercial convection ovens, large capacity kettles, a tilt skillet, blast freezing, and packaging capability that includes modified atmosphere packaging, vacuum packaging, retail tray sealing, and bulk foodservice packaging. We recently completed an independent third party GMP audit and are actively pursuing SQF certification.
Note: GMP audit score and USDA establishment number still pending confirmation, same flag as every other page.
Catalyst Foods was founded by Jim Brooke, who brings more than 30 years of experience in the foo industry, and Chef Mark Riggs, who leads culinary development and production. Together they built Catalyst Foods to give growing food businesses the production partner they could not find elsewhere: one with real industrial capacity and a genuine path in for a business that is not yet industrial scale.
USDA Inspected
HACCP Compliant
Third Party GMP Audited
SQF Certification In Progress.
Common Questions
Catalyst Foods is a USDA inspected food manufacturer and co-packer headquartered in Sumner, Washington. We produce bulk cooked proteins, ready to eat meals, and custom food products for retailers, foodservice operators, and emerging brands across the United States.
A co-packer, also called a contract food manufacturer, produces food products on behalf of another company under that company's brand or specification. Catalyst Foods operates as a USDA inspected co-packer, handling production, packaging, and food safety compliance so our customers can focus on their brand and their customers.
Catalyst Foods does not enforce a fixed minimum order quantity. MOQ depends on recipe complexity, packaging format, and sourcing requirements, and is set individually with each customer to balance operational efficiency with support for growth stage brands.
The growth glide path is how Catalyst Foods moves a product from a working recipe to full production. It starts with a product review, moves through recipe preparation for scale where needed, and ends with production that reserves capacity to grow as your volume grows, rather than treating each order as a one time run.
Catalyst Foods is based in Sumner, Washington, just south of Seattle. Our USDA inspected facility serves customers throughout the Pacific Northwest and across the United States, with products shipped using our own delivery vehicles, distribution partners, and refrigerated common carriers.
Share your product and your volume goals through our contact form or by calling us directly. We will review the recipe, packaging format, and sourcing requirements, then let you know honestly whether Catalyst Foods is the right fit before discussing next steps.
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Let's Talk About Your Product
If you have a product ready to scale, or a concept you want help developing, tell us about it. We will look at what you are making and let you know honestly whether we are the right fit.