Custom flavor creations
and culinary insights

Custom flavor creations and
culinary insights

Solutions to keep you ahead of the curve

A team who delivers excellence

About ILLES Foods

From marinades and seasonings, to beverage solutions and sauces, ILLES Foods provides custom-crafted culinary creations and R&D expertise to foodservice chains, food manufacturers, and grocery retailers.

The values we’ve learned and lived for the past 95 years — trust, food safety, excellence, creativity, teamwork, giving back to the community — motivate our people to help our customers be better with us than without us, and are the driving forces behind our growth.

Why partner with us

Why partner
with us

Small enough to care.
Big enough to execute.

Trust, transparency and results.
No excuses.

Beyond just our products,
it’s the ILLES experience.

What can we do for you

We partner with you to create an unparalleled experience for your customers. We help you bring to market safe, premium, and flavor-forward products that drive your sales and profitability. We offer the full gamut of manufacturing services for liquid and dry products, and meet your packaging and labelling needs too.

What do our business partners say

This is why we do what we do – helping our customers be better with us than without us. This is also why our customers think they are better with us.

Illes is best in class when it comes to flavor development, seasonings, and sauces. The company demonstrates a unique level of internal alignment and commitment to customers success that is evidenced in the behavior of every one of their associates.

Peter Gibbons

Founder & Principal

I have worked with the Illes team for several years and I am extremely pleased with the product and service provided to our R&D team.

John Tapia

Director of R&D

We have worked closely with Illes for over 15 years. They are a great partner and have an exceptional team. They have continually met our expectations with satisfying results for every challenge we have presented. By providing presentations of new flavors and trends, Illes has kept us informed to maintain options for our customers.

Alma Gloria

Product Development Manager

Illes is our go to vendor of choice for many of our products thanks to their talented R&D team, quick turnaround times, and dynamic commercialization process. The R&D and Culinary Teams’ understanding of flavors is immensely helpful, which significantly cuts down R&D time and therefore time to launch.

Scott Uehlein

Head of Culinary Innovation

Illes ranks in our top tier of supplier performance with on time delivery of 100% and order complete of 99.7%.

Stephanie Taylor

Strategic Sourcing

I have worked with Illes for more than 3 years and found them to be an innovative, resourceful and nimble sauce and flavor company partner. I have challenged them with difficult opportunities with very unreasonable turnaround times on multiple occasions and they always seem to come through.

Joe Gordon

VP of Procurement and Supply Chain

We have worked with Illes Foods for several years now. They came onboard as a supplier when our volume needs were low for LTO items and standard core ingredients. As we’ve grown they have scaled up successfully for us and proven to be integral partner in our success.

Lisa Kartzman

VP Supply Chain

I find ILLES Foods Customer Experience Team always professional, courteous, and friendly.

Cindy Sims

Buyer

I've worked with ILLES Foods on multiple projects over the last 7 years. Their entire team has always been professional, communicative, and accessible. No matter the size of the opportunity, they treat us like we are the priority and puts us in a position to succeed. I trust ILLES in all their facets and feel they're an extension of our R&D team.

Mark Pandolfo

Vice President of Sales

We have worked with ILLES Foods for several years and they are our go-to partner in product development for sauces and syrups. They are always eager and willing to work on numerous LTO products throughout the year for us, often with unique and specialty ingredients.

Allison Oesterle

Sr. Director Product Development & QA

Experience ILLES

Do you want to discover new flavors and give your customers a reason to come back?

Let’s talk.

Custom flavor creationsand culinary insights

Custom flavor creations andculinary insights