Ken's Foods facts for kids
Ken's Foods is a company that makes yummy things like salad dressings, sauces, and marinades. It's located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Ken's Foods makes products for stores where you can buy them, and also for restaurants and other businesses. They even make products for other companies like Newman's Own.
What Ken's Foods Does
Ken's Foods is one of the biggest makers of salad dressings in the United States. Only Kraft Foods and Wish-Bone make more.
The company has its main office in Marlborough. It also has other places where it makes products in McDonough, Georgia; Lebanon, Indiana; and Las Vegas, Nevada. More than 1,200 people work for Ken's Foods.
Most of the company's business comes from making food for other businesses. They also sell a lot of their bottled products in stores.
How Ken's Foods Started
The name "Ken's" comes from a restaurant called Ken's Steak House. Ken and Florence Hanna started this restaurant in Framingham, Massachusetts, way back in 1941.
People loved the salad dressings at the restaurant so much! They started asking the Hannas to bottle them so they could buy them. In 1958, the Hannas gave permission for a friend to use their restaurant's name. That's how the Ken's Foods company began.
Later, in 2020, some people had concerns about the labels on Ken's salad dressing bottles. The labels said "Made with Extra Virgin Olive Oil" on the neck of the bottle. However, olive oil was not a main ingredient in the dressings. Ken's Foods listened to these concerns and changed the labels on their bottles.
More Information
- Ken's Food Website
