What started as a mere seed of an idea has grown beyond our wildest imagination.
Today, we are a state-of-the-art food production company focused on producing real, really good lemon juice. We keep things running like a well-oiled machine, and our robots love when we say that.
Thanks in large part to our cutting-edge technology and the people who keep everything on track, our operations are capable of the large-scale output of cold-extracted, cold-pasteurized lemon juice: the heart of Chick-fil-A® Lemonade.
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And while we continue to nurture and grow what we do, we haven’t lost sight of how we came to be. We were born from an intrinsic purpose to go above and beyond, all to better serve local franchised Operators and their customers.
It’s safe to say that all of those who call Bay Center Foods their home away from home, including our charming collection of robots, believe that we are built to serve.
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At Bay Center Foods, our imaginative team works in a cutting-edge atmosphere. While everything we do revolves around one simple ingredient, lemons, what we do with them — and how we do it — is technical, creative and precise.
Bay Center Foods is a state-of-the-art, highly automated food production company that serves Chick-fil-A® restaurant Operators and their customers across the country by providing them with the lemon juice needed to produce Chick-fil-A® Lemonade.
Through a precise process known as high-pressure pasteurization (HPP), we’re able to maintain the delicious taste that Chick-fil-A customers expect without making any compromises along the way. We are High-Pressure Certified®, and while what we do might sound a bit technical, we have a whole lot of fun doing it.
We use fresh, whole lemons. From there, using a juice-extraction process that mimics hand squeezing, we’re able to retain the perfect flavor.
By shipping only lemon juice, we’ve reduced the weight associated with the transportation of lemons — thereby reducing emissions and helping the environment — and found ways to repurpose discarded peels and other lemon byproducts into different applications, keeping waste out of the landfill.
We capture the taste of hand-squeezed lemon juice at scale — for restaurants to prepare enough Chick-fil-A Lemonade to meet customer demand, today and tomorrow.
We provide high-quality lemon juice — enough for Chick-fil-A restaurants to create and serve delicious lemonade to customers chainwide on an ongoing basis.
We adhere to all required safety protocols to ensure our employees are safe, protected and secure at all times. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we are committed to creating an environment where our employees can safely do what they do best.
