We are the only canner in California who pays growers cash premiums based on the canning quality of their tomatoes. Many years ago, Stanislaus developed our own unique, comprehensive quality measurements to evaluate every incoming load of fresh tomatoes coming from our growers' fields. This rigorous evaluation of quality determines how much the grower is paid for each load.

As a result of this "only-at-Stanislaus" program, the best growers in California want to grow tomatoes for us (because it's profitable for them!) while lesser-quality growers choose to grow for other canners with lower quality standards. It's the good old American incentive system at work—and it pays off in superior quality tomatoes!

We deliberately contract for fresh tomatoes of different types to create a range of flavors, which we then artfully blend to achieve perfect "balance" and consistent fresh taste—can after can, day after day, year after year.

How do we do this? Well, we have something that none of the other processors have—a Raw Product Lab which evaluates every load (the moment it arrives from the field) for key flavor characteristics. Using proprietary technology, we then artfully blend our fresh tomatoes to consistently achieve perfect flavor balance and "Real Italian" taste superiority!

Could other processors do this? Possibly, but they aren't willing to invest the significant money, effort, and time that it takes to develop this art—because no one else is as obsessed with flavor as we are.

It's a fast-flowing river of red tomatoes that runs 24 hours per day, seven days per week!

There's a very good reason why we move so quickly. Because we pack 100% of our products from fresh tomatoes, 100% of our annual production must be fresh-packed during the three-month vine-ripe season.

Of course, it would be cheaper (and easier!) to do it like the other guys and Re-Manufacture tomato products year-round from bulk industrial tomato concentrate and water—but we do things differently! Our customers understand and are willing to pay for the extra effort and investment of fresh-packed tomato products. Our customers understand "Real Italian" taste and they know the only way to capture just-picked fresh tomato flavor is to rush the tomatoes straight from the field into the same can they open in their restaurant.

That's why every can of our tomato products carries a logo that proudly guarantees it's "Packed From Fresh Tomatoes, Not From Concentrate"!

That's why at Stanislaus we constantly minimize cooking temperatures and can our tomatoes as fast as possible. That's why we continually invest in shaving a few more seconds off our already-quick heating times, and a few more degrees off our already-low temperatures. That's why we are driven to constantly surpass our principal flavor competitor—ourselves!

Since temperature is a key enemy of fresh tomato flavor, why do most tomato processors Re-Manufacture products, exposing them to 300-400% more time/temperature than the packed-from-fresh process?! Because it's cheaper, and because almost all their price-oriented competitors in America today are doing it!

What's the result? The absence of fresh flavor and a heavy over-cooked taste. (And in "fully prepared" products, an extra dose of spicing to cover-up the taste.) That's why Re-Manufactured tomato products sell for lower prices to food service operators more attuned to cost-per-case than the quality of the food they serve!

When Dino's wife Giovanna prepares his favorite dish—veal scaloppini, she carefully inspects all the ingredients, smells the fresh herbs, cooks the meat quickly at low heat, constantly tasting and tuning the simmering sauce, adding just a little more of this or that, until all agree—the result is perfect!

Believe it or not, we just described Stanislaus' approach to quality control ... we process tomatoes the way that good cooks, cook!

Unlike the rest of the processed tomato industry which operates on the—"finished product"—quality control premise, we believe ongoing "tuning" of our processing is the key to superior quality all the time!

That's why approximately 80% of our quality control efforts are concentrated on controlling quality while the product is being made, not after the fact.

By using in-line QC, we can make tiny adjustments ("tuning") to ensure the end product is perfect, can after can. That's why we have three times as many quality control people as the other guys! And that's why we can back up our guarantee of "Superior Quality, All The Time!"

As part of our commitment, our on-line Quality Supervisors are empowered to stop any production line the minute any product were to go even slightly below our high standards.

In other companies, Quality Control people are subordinate to Production Managers responsible for meeting cost targets. (Translation: A production-oriented manager always puts cost ahead of quality.)

But at Stanislaus, Quality is in Control so our products are consistent, can after can. So if you'd like to compare our products with the other guys—pick a can, any can, from any lot, any time, anywhere. All of our products are our best stuff!