Trust, service and community ties — the same things that got a truck loaded in 1958 still get it loaded today.
In 1958, Los Angeles was full of new drive-ins, coffee shops and burger stands, and every one of them needed potatoes. Jimmy saw that the big houses weren't interested in small accounts, so he built a business that was.
He ran it the way you'd run a route if every customer was a neighbor: show up on time, deliver what you said you would, and fix it yourself when something goes wrong. That reputation is what made "Sweet Jimmy's" stick — and it's why so many of our accounts have been with us for decades.
"Deliver good product at a fair price, and stand behind it."The whole business plan, then and now
Sweet Jimmy's Foods founded in Los Angeles, delivering potatoes and frozen fries to independent restaurants.
The catalog grows with our customers: frozen appetizers, proteins, dairy and dry goods join the fries on the truck.
Second and third generations take the wheel. Operations consolidate at our Commerce, CA warehouse, central to the L.A. and Orange County routes.
Member of Frosty Acres Brands, pairing national cooperative buying power with the same family-run service.
Our warehouse crew, drivers and office staff are the reason customers stay. Many have been here ten, fifteen, twenty years — long enough to know every account's back door, dock height and what "the usual" means.
We hire for reliability and we keep people because we treat them like family. If that sounds like you, we're always looking.
See Open RolesFrosty Acres Brands is a cooperative owned by independent foodservice distributors across the country. Together, members buy at a scale no single independent could reach — and each keeps running its business the way its customers like.
Cooperative volume on the categories that matter most, passed through to independent kitchens.
Frosty Acres and Restaurant's Pride lines, spec'd and audited nationally, delivered locally.
Access to the cooperative's supplier network when you need something we don't stock.
Same trucks, same drivers, same phone number. The co-op strengthens us; it doesn't replace us.
Home base in Commerce puts us in the middle of the region's kitchens. Greater Los Angeles, the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys, the South Bay, Orange County and the Inland Empire are on regular routes; ask us about anywhere else.
Check Your Delivery DayCall the warehouse, or send us your order guide and we'll put a quote together. No call centers, no portals to fight with.
