25 Otis St Westborough, Massachusetts, 01581- United States
Company Details
About Maines Paper & Food Services Inc
A private company based in Conklin, New York, Maines Paper & Food Service Inc. is one of the leading foodservice distributors in the United States, with annual sales in excess of $1.6 billion. The company's core business is the distribution of a broad line of products throughout New York State and northern Pennsylvania. These customers include restaurants (whether they be single units or regional chains, white table cloth or casual), convenience stores, delis, bars, pizzerias, educational institutions, healthcare facilities, cruise lines, concessionaires, and camps. The broad line of products includes fresh, frozen, dry grocery, paper goods, and beverages. Maines's QSR (Quick Serve Restaurants) division is primarily dedicated to serving the needs of the Wendy's and Burger King fast-food chains. Maines also operates an equipment and supply operation, selling a wide variety of equipment and smallware products while also providing services such as kitchen layout, design, and installation. Maines offers institutional products to independents and the general public through Maines Food & Party Warehouse, two cash-and-carry operations in Johnson City and Syracuse, New York. The company maintains distribution centers in upstate New York, the New York City metropolitan area, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee. Maines's service area stretches from Maine in the northeast to as far south as Georgia, as far southwest as Louisiana, encompasses the entire Midwest, and reaches as far west as Montana and Wyoming.
Company Founding in 1919
Maines was launched under modest circumstances in 1919 when Floyd L. Maines, Sr., moved to the Binghamton, New York area and established a candy distribution business in the small town of Conklin. In the first year of operation he sold $30,000 worth of nickel candy bars—Hershey bars, Milky Ways, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and the like. It was not until a second generation joined the company in the form of Floyd L. Maines, Jr., that it expanded beyond the candy distribution business. After a five-year stint in the Navy during World War II, the younger Maines took a permanent position with the company in 1947, although according to family lore his first inclination was to become an FBI agent. Nevertheless, he was an aggressive businessman and able to persuade his father that Maines Candy Company, as it was now called, should offer a far more diverse selection of products, including paper goods such as napkins, cups, and straws, as well as fountain supplies and even toys. Nevertheless, it remained a small operation, served by a single small truck and a family station wagon. But the younger Maines also recruited some friends to act as sales reps for the growing company, resulting in steady growth for the next two decades.
A third generation of the Maines family became involved with the company when Floyd Maines, Jr.'s son David came to work for the company in 1970. It was during the early 1970s that Maines finally reached the $1 million mark in annual sales. In 1972 the company decided to become involved in food distribution, hiring a veteran of the business, Jack Olin from Binghamton-based Willow Run Foods, to head the effort. Sales began to climb, but the young blood in the family, David and his younger brother Bill, were determined to reach far greater heights. A profile of the Maines family published by Binghamton's Press & Sun-Bulletin in 2002 shared the reflections of longtime customer Frank Kelly, a small franchiser of area Burger King restaurants. Kelly recalled an incident in 1974, at a time when David Maines was 24 and his brother William was an 18-year-old college freshman at Babson College in Massachusetts. Maines showed Kelly "a copy of ID magazine, a trade journal for the food distribution industry. It listed Maines Paper & Food Service as an up-and-comer in the business. 'Frank, when Billy gets back from college, we're going to make a plan and we're going to town,' Kelly recalls David Maines telling him."
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