Refrigerated & Frozen Foods is accepting nominations for its 2025 Processor of the Year award.

This award honors a refrigerated and/or frozen foods processor for its year-over-year growth and leadership in product sales, packaging, distribution strategies, food safety, new product development, plant expansions, sustainability programs and more.

The chosen food processor/manufacturer will appear on the cover of our November eMagazine issue, included in Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ promotional materials and social media channels and will be featured as a guest on the From the Cold Corner podcast.

Have questions? Contact editor in chief Kelley Rodriguez at rodriguezk@bnpmedia.com. Good luck!

A private label powerhouse, Cafe Spice produces its own branded RTE meals as well as co-manufactured and foodservice products for customers including Whole Foods, Kroger and Amazon. They were named the 2024 Processor of the Year.

The company in late 2023 began manufacturing from a 70,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility in Beacon, New York, near their original, 50,000-square-foot site in New Windsor. The Beacon site, which now accounts for nearly 90% of the company’s output, is in its first phase of operation, with additional production lines coming this year.

The biggest difference between the two facilities is that the newest facility is much more automated. Adding robotics-as-a-service will allow up to 60 units per minute to portioned and placed, while employees will monitor the line, “feeding” the robots with the tray’s components.

Cafe Spice, will participate in a webinar discussing their award winning operation and new, highly-automated production plant on June 5.