Founded in 1960, AVI has rapidly become the largest independently owned and operated food service company in the United States. Currently employing thousands, AVI services millions of consumers daily from branches strategically located throughout our service area. From the first, our mission has been to provide our customers with the highest quality, most innovative, imaginative food service programs and products in the industry...each program tailored to the individual needs of our customer. Our unprecedented growth and customer loyalty reflects our success in the relentless pursuit of this goal. We presently serve some of the most prestigious institutions in America, including industry, corporate headquarters complexes, universities, school systems and health care facilities throughout the Midwest and eastern United States. Our success is also a result of our total commitment to excellence in providing the highest quality food products in the nation, incomparable service, responsiveness, operational efficiency, complete integrity and total value! AVI's growth is also a direct result of an effort to put the interests of others first...our customers, our associates and our suppliers. And because we are independently owned and family operated, our customers are able to deal directly with AVI's decision makers, avoiding layers of bureaucracy and red tape. We simply eliminate the delay of corporate chain-of-command requirements. AVI FOODSYSTEMS, Inc. enthusiastically supports and has been certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) to perform as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise. The criteria for certification includes fifty-one percent ownership by a woman or women, proof of effective management of the business, control of the business as evidenced by signatures on loans, leases and contracts, as well as U.S. citizenship. AVI FOODSYSTEMS' President, Patrice Kouvas was named by WBENC as a "2006 Business Star" as nominated by the Women's Business Enterprise Council - Southeast. Recognized for her commitment, passion, talent, creativity and success, this award honors Patsy's dedication to her employees, customers, suppliers and entire business enterprise. AVI FOODSYSTEMS remains at the helm of successful certified woman owned businesses due in large part to Patsy's uncompromising commitment to total customer satisfaction. AVI FOODSYSTEMS is proud to serve our customers as a WBENC certified WBE! quality commitment Our concentration is upon being the best food service provider in the industry, not the biggest. We focus upon the quality of products we produce rather than the number of products. excellence We dedicate ourselves to excellence not only in product and service, but in relationships. Our customers, guests, associates and vendors are the reason we exist. After all is said and done, we are more about people than we are about food. efficiency and value In an effort to provide the most competitive, reasonable, and fair price for our product, we concentrate on productivity and resource efficiency. The rewards from what we do are not based upon the gross value of what we produce as much as they are on the value of the individual product we produce. Value stems from concentrating upon excellence in every single product. knowledge Know thy customer and guest. We fully understand and appreciate what our customers want and need. Yet, we will merely exist if we deliver only what they want or need. To thrive, we must offer unanticipated values, which means we have to give our customers and guests more than they expect. consistency We must be consistent in purpose, in product, in presentation, in attitude and in our value of the individual. BACK HOME WHO WE ARE SERVICES CUSTOMERS HUMAN RESOURCES EMPLOYMENT WELL WORTH IT SERVICE INQUIRIES QUESTIONS