Bon Appetit - Management Company

Summary

Bon Appétit Management Company (www.bamco.com) is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, and specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Bon Appétit has more than 500 cafés in 32 states, including eBay, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Getty Center. All Bon Appétit food is cooked from scratch, including sauces, stocks, and soups. A pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, Bon Appétit has developed programs addressing local purchasing, the overuse of antibiotics, sustainable seafood, the food and climate change connection, humanely raised meat and eggs, and farmworker welfare. It has received numerous awards for its work, from organizations including the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the James Beard Foundation, Chefs Collaborative, Natural Resources Defense Council, Seafood Choices Alliance, The Humane Society of the United States, and Food Alliance.

Expertise

Food services for a sustainable future

Clients

Some of the members of the Bon Appétit family

Milestones

• Founded in 1987
  
• First to use only whole, fresh ingredients (1987)
  
• First to support local small farmers, fishers, and artisans (1999)
• First to commit to Seafood Watch guidelines (2002)
  
• First to serve only rBGH-free dairy (2002)
• First to address antibiotics in the meat supply (2003)
  
• First to switch to cage-free eggs (2005)
  
• First to tackle food and climate change (2007)
  
• First to address farmworker rights (2009)
  
• First to bake with Fair Trade chocolate companywide (2011)
• First to commit to pork raised without gestation crates (2012)
  

Principals

Fedele Bauccio, CEO
Michael Bauccio, COO 

Kay facts

• 10,500 employees
• More than 400 cafés in 32 states
• Over 135 million meals served annually
  

Headquarters

100 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 400, Palo Alto, CA 94301
T: (650) 798-8000, fax (650) 798-8090