Taylor Farms

Taylor Farms (legally Taylor Fresh Foods), founded 1995 in Salinas, CA by third-generation produce entrepreneur Bruce Taylor, is North America's leading producer of fresh-cut, ready-to-eat salads, salad/meal kits, and value-added vegetables; as of 2009 it was ranked the world's largest salad and fresh-cut vegetable processor, supplying retail and foodservice customers including McDonald's and Chipotle. It is a vertically integrated grower-processor-distributor: roughly 15% of produce is grown internally and the rest sourced from grower partners, harvested, washed, cut, packaged and distributed across ~22 processing/distribution facilities. Reported scale ranges from ~$7B-$8.4B revenue and ~24,000 employees, sending up to 160 million servings weekly. The company is privately held and family-owned, and is an unusually active automation adopter for the produce sector — running robotic case-packing/palletizing lines, custom-built dryers, automated harvesters, and having acquired ag-robotics startup FarmWise in 2025.