OUR STORY
Southern Foods will continue to succeed in the foodservice industry with the help of our customers, business partners and dedicated co-workers. Southern Foods has a philosophy of being customer driven with a personal touch. We work hard each day at anticipating the customer's needs and then quickly acting on them.

Southern Foods in an independently owned, full-line foodservice distributor based in Bowling Green, Kentucky and a member of an integrated nationwide distribution system that includes a cooperative purchasing program (UniPro Foodservice).

The company that we know as Southern Foods began business as Bowling Green Frozen Foods in January of 1956 as a combination foodservice and retail food distributor. The current owners purchased Bowling Green Frozen Foods in 1983 and Cummings Produce in 1985. Also in 1985, the company began operating as Southern Foods because this name better reflected the breadth of the product line.

Because of the better than industry growth in the late 1980's and the 1990's, Southern Foods moved in May 2000 to its fifth location in the south industrial park off Nashville Road in Bowling Green, 21 acres at 117 Mitch McConnell Way. Our new state-of-the-art distribution center has increased efficiency and productivity. This new distribution center was designed to allow for multiple expansions with the future needs of the company in mind. New facility features include: five temperature controlled coolers for produce quality, refrigerated dock and holding area, PC-based monitoring system for temperature control, additional warehouse slots, a restaurant equipped test kitchen, and a fully equipped training room.

Examples of our customers are restaurants, healthcare facilities, convenience stores, and hotels. We have over 6,500 products that include fresh, dry, frozen, and refrigerated grocery products, cleaning supplies, paper goods, equipment, and tabletop and kitchen utensils. We not only sell and deliver these products, we provide resources to our customers. For example, we have a trained culinary chef, a dietician, and merchandising specialists that can offer menu and presentation suggestions to customers. We service the equipment that we sell. We perform chemical tests so that your cleaning needs are met. We offer inventory control suggestions and food safety training.
 
 
OUR VISION AND VALUES

We seek to be a world-class provider of Wow!

Service to co-workers, customers, partners, and community.

Our goal is to empower each of these stakeholders to achieve the greatest success in life, realizing their full potential.

In these relationships we value:

Honesty, integrity, trust and respect
Innovation and continuous improvement
Care and nurturing
Passion, hard work, and fun
 
UniPro Membership:
UniPro Foodservice, Inc. is the leading foodservice distribution network in the United States. Comprising of over 300 shareholder companies, each distributor is independently owned, marketing the products and services provided by UniPro Foodservice. With a collective sales volume of over $27 billion, the buying power of UniPro enables its members to receive enhanced purchasing opportunities, thereby providing better pricing and a vast array of products to their customers.

UniPro members service accounts in all segments of the foodservice industry, including independent and multi-unit restaurants, healthcare facilities, schools, military feeding, and other mass-feeding operations.

In addition to marketing the most recognized national brands in the foodservice arena, UniPro members exclusively market their own private brands: CODE®, ComSource® , Nifda® and Nugget®. In 2001, UniPro launched two proprietary brands: Reflections® hot beverages and Companions® disposable cutlery and serviceware.