| Traded As: | NASDAQ: |
| T. Marzetti Company | |
| Type: | Subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corporation |
| Foundation: | 1896 |
| Location: | 380 Polaris Parkway, Westerville, OH 43082 |
| Key People: | Jay Gerlach, Chairman Dave Ciesinski, CEO |
| Industry: | Food processing |
| Revenue: | US$1,676 million (2022)[1] |
| Operating Income: | US$356 million (2022) |
| Num Employees: | 2700[2] |
| Products: | Marzetti New York Brand Sister Schubert's Reames Chatham Village Cardini's Girard's Romanoff Pfeiffer Amish Kitchens Inn Maid Angelic Bakehouse Flatout |
| Homepage: | http://www.tmarzetticompany.com/ |
The T. Marzetti Company is the Specialty Food Group of the Lancaster Colony Corporation. T. Marzetti produces numerous salad dressings, fruit and vegetable dips, frozen baked goods and specialty brand items. It is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in Central Ohio. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, the T. Marzetti Company was founded by Teresa Marzetti.
T. Marzetti started out as an Italian restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, started by the couple of Teresa and Joseph Marzetti, recent Italian immigrants, in 1896. Teresa's opening credo was:
"We will start a new place and serve good food. At a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but we will serve good food."[3]
Marzetti's became a local favorite especially among Ohio State University students, and grew to become a four star restaurant. Customers particularly enjoyed Teresa's Johnny Marzetti, a pasta dish named for her brother-in-law, as well as her homemade salad dressings. By 1955, Marzetti's upstairs kitchen of the restaurant became a full-scale factory, and the Marzetti brand of salad dressings found its way into grocery stores throughout Ohio. By the late 1960's, the company built a dressing production plant in Columbus' Clintonville neighborhood on Indianola Avenue. After Teresa Marzetti's death in 1972, the restaurant closed, but the company and factory have continued on to this day.
Today, the company has expanded its operations at other plants including two additional plants in Columbus, Ohio, as well as in Horse Cave, Kentucky and Milpitas, California.