In 1985, Food Service Specialties was founded in Columbus, Wisconsin by lifelong best friends Don Leick and Steve Lineer. During a visit to a potential customer, they had been asked to match and scale up a custom pizza sauce in an attempt to create uniformity and consistency in their customer’s sauce from batch to batch.
 
This very concept is what blossomed into the successful business that we are today. For over 35 years now, Food Service Specialties has been creating, matching, and customizing a variety of different tomato and dairy-based sauces for restaurants, frozen food manufacturers, and retail applications both domestically and internationally.