Golden State Foods

Golden State Foods (GSF) is an Irvine, California-based foodservice company that primarily serves McDonald's. Through a joint venture with Taylor Fresh Foods Inc., GSF is one of the biggest and longest-serving suppliers to McDonald's restaurants,[3] including liquid products, and it's McDonald's third largest beef supplier in the U.S. market.[4][5]

Golden State Foods
Private
IndustryFood packaging, Agriculture, Food industry
FoundedLos Angeles Area, California (1947)
HeadquartersIrvine, California
Key people
Mark S. Wetterau Chair/CEO
Productsfoods, beverages,
Revenue $6.9 Billion USD (2017)[1]
Number of employees
6000 (2020)[2]
Websitewww.goldenstatefoods.com

History

The company was founded in 1947[1] by Bill (William) Moore, and Frank Streeter and began as a small meat company to supply products to Los Angeles area restaurants and hotels. It is a 100% management owned and operated company.[1] In the 1950s it became a primary supplier to McDonald's Corporation to provide the fast food restaurant chain with ingredients.

On June 14, 1984; an employee Samuel Vasquez was ground to death by a meat grinder in Golden State Foods' City of Industry, California facility due to the failure of Golden State Foods to practice Lockout–tagout procedures mandated by safety regulations.[6][7] Their practice was to clean with the machine running as it was slightly easier.[8] California OSHA and the Los Angeles County District Attorney sought criminal prosecutions in this matter.[9][10][11]

Chef Gold was launched in 2000 to produce liquid products, such as ketchup and mustard, and cooked meat products for a variety of customers. In the same year, GSF formed a self-serving subsidiary called Centralized Leasing Company (CLC) to provide GSF with leasing services. In 2002 Signature Services was launched to offer customized services such as store painting, lot striping, power washing and landscaping. In partnership with The Arthur Wells Group in St. Louis; GSF formed CFM Logistics to help clients with their freight distribution needs. By 2017, the company services approx. 25,000 restaurants.[1]

In 2006, Quality Custom Distribution was formed as a subsidiary of GSF and serves over 7,500 Starbucks locations. It also deliver supplies to customers such as Chipotle Mexican Grill and Chick-fil-A.[12]

In May 2012, a 60 foot truck operated by a GSF / Quality Custom Distrubtion (QCD) employee Dawayne Eacret ran over and killed a bicyclist while making a right turn in downtown Portland, Oregon.[13] In the lawsuit, the family argued the driver and the assistant Josiah Reed were negligent and sought $1.8 million in damages.[14] The attorneys representing the deceased obtained an identical truck and demonstrated and video recorded that the driver and his passenger could have seen the bicyclist which resulted in GSF and the victim's parents settling for $700,000.[13]

In March 2019, GSF opened a 165.000-square-foot meat processing plant in Opelika, Alabama.[15]

In late 2019, GSF's QCD moved its headquarters to Frisco, Texas and acquired four warehouses in Midwest and Northeast regions in February 2020, becoming the Starbucks' top supplier[16]

In July 2020, the GSF's City of Industry, California facility was ordered shut down by the health department and remained shut for several days after failing to report an outbreak of 43 cases of COVID-19 to the health department as required.[17]

Operations

GSF entered the baked goods business by forming a joint venture with Bryan, Texas-based Mid South Bakery. The baked products are distributed to customers in the Southeastern United States.

The company reports it exports products to more than 40 countries.[18] GSF's Australian group, supplies produce to KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. The company also owns a food processing and distribution center in Egypt, through which it provides processing and distribution services in the Middle East.

2020 protest incident

On the night of June 1st, 2020 during a protest against police brutality in Portland, Maine a tractor trailer driver driving for GSF's Quality Custom Distribution[19] drove into a crowd of protesters following a delivery. A chaos erupted after the driver drove into a crowd of protesters following a delivery.[20] The driver was arrested on a felony charge of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.[21][22][23]

References
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  2. "Golden State Foods CEO Talks COVID-19". Orange County Business Journal. 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  3. Salahieh, Nouran; Lyster, Lauren (2020-07-28). "3 food suppliers in L.A. County ordered to close after 'significant' coronavirus outbreaks not reported to health department". KTLA. Retrieved 2020-08-11. Golden State Foods Corp. is one of the largest and longest-serving suppliers to McDonald’s,
  4. Haberberg, Adrian; Rieple, Alison (2008). Strategic Management: Theory and Application. OUP Oxford. p. 134. ISBN 9780199216468. It is now the largest supplier of liquid products and third-largest beef supplier to McDonald's in the USA
  5. Today, Industry (2016-07-26). "Golden Opportunities". Industry Today. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  6. California (State). California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs: B021804, Petition for Writ.
  7. Subcommittee, United States Congress House Committee on Government Operations Employment and Housing (1988). Criminal penalties for OSHA violations: hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, February 4, 1988. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 50. In Golden state Foods, an employee was literally ground up in a meat blender when he went in, as was part of their regular practice, to clean out meat stuck at the bottom.
  8. Subcommittee, United States Congress House Committee on Government Operations Employment and Housing (1988). Criminal penalties for OSHA violations: hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, February 4, 1988. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 42.
  9. Gerrard, Michael B.; Foster, Sheila R. (2008). The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks. American Bar Association. p. 764. ISBN 978-1-60442-083-8. People V. Golden State Foods, No. 31386211 (June 11, 1985) (prosecution for violation of California lockout requirements intended to prevent machine operation during cleaning, which resulted in death of an individual who was caught in a meat grinder).
  10. Reiner, Ira; Chatten-Brown, Jan (1989–1990). "When It Is Not an Accident, but a Crime: Prosecutors Get Tough with OSHA Violations". Northern Kentucky Law Review. 17: 83.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  11. Reiner, Ira; Chatten-Brown, Jan (1989-03-01). "Deterring Death in the Workplace: The Prosecutor's Perspective". Law, Medicine and Health Care. 17 (1): 23–31. doi:10.1111/j.1748-720X.1989.tb01068.x. ISSN 0277-8459.
  12. Ajamy, David (February 6, 2020). "Fresh off its HQ move to Frisco, this foodservice distribution company is growing". Dallas Business Journal. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  13. Green, Aimee (2014-02-27). "Parents of deceased cyclist Kathryn Rickson settle with truck driver's employer for $700,000". oregonlive. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  14. Staff, KGW (February 26, 2014). "Trucking co. settles in bicyclist death lawsuit". kgw.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11. Rickson s family sought nearly $1.8 million in damages against Delaware trucking company Golden State Foods Corp., claiming the driver and his assistant, Josiah Reed, were negligent in the wreck.
  15. Thornton, William (2018-07-27). "Golden State Foods opens Opelika plant". al. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
  16. "Chances increase your Starbucks was stocked by this company". Orange County Register. 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  17. COSGROVE, JACLYN; LAU, MAYA (2020-07-29). "L.A. County shuts down three food businesses over unreported COVID-19 outbreaks". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  18. https://goldenstatefoods.com/about-us/global-presence/
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  20. Schroeder, Nick (2020-06-02). "Portland police report 23 arrests, several vandalism cases from Monday protest". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
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  22. WGME (2020-06-02). "23 arrested after peaceful Portland protest takes a turn". WGME. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
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