Le Chef is one of the country's foremost premier bakeries specializing in high-end, European-style baked goods. With a fine array of decadent desserts, enticing breads, and a comprehensive line of breakfast pastries, frozen-dough, and fresh-baked goods, serving California and neighboring states for over 40 years.
While the bakery has ballooned in size and sales in four decades, Le Chef continues to be family-owned and operated, and unwavering in its emphasis on providing customers, vendors, and employees with personalized and customized service. Fair business practices, a longstanding respect for the workforce, and a steadfast allegiance to world-class customer service have earned Le Chef lasting relationships in the industry and a broad client base that includes eminent hotels, food services, convention centers, high-end grocery stores, gourmet restaurants, and culinary distributors.
Since 2016, Le Chef Bakery's Montebello, California facility has been certified as meeting the rigorous requirements of the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Code for Manufacturing of frozen dough bakery pastries, frozen dough cookies, baked pastries and baked cookies. This distinction is one of the highest barometers in the industry pertaining to food safety and quality and only the most competitive companies attain SQF certification.
Recognized worldwide by retailers and food-service providers, SQF monitors, assesses, and validates food-safety control protocols and effectiveness. The prestigious certification includes random unannounced audits of food manufacturing, packaging, and storage and distribution.
At Le Chef, we strive to deliver the highest level of service not only in our food quality, but also in our food safety. Le Chef employs the FDA-approved Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) program, which takes stringent measures to prevent and eliminate hazards in the food-production process. The HACCP approach is used at all production stages, including food preparation, packaging, distribution, etc. Our HACCP program has been reviewed and audited by the American Institute of Baking International, which has honored Le Chef Bakery with the Superior rating since 2007.
Le Chef holds the proud distinction of being certified by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), which matches more than 15,000 minority-owned companies in the United States with member corporations that want to purchase goods and services.
One of the country's leading business membership organizations, the NMSDC was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority companies big and small. The council boasts a corporate membership of about 3,500 members, including some of America's largest and most powerful companies and organizations.