Top 17 Food & Beverage Companies in South Carolina 2026

Whaley Foodservice

Lexington, South Carolina400+ employees

Whaley Foodservice was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Lexington, South Carolina. The company specializes in commercial foodservice equipment repair, installation, and planned maintenance.

Joyce Food Equipment Co

Greenville, South Carolina

Joyce Food Equipment Co has operated as a family-owned small business in Greenville, South Carolina, since 1965. The business combines retail and service operations, offering a showroom for used and new food-service equipment along with small wares, while its technicians perform on-site repair calls for restaurant kitchens.

America's Food Equipment Co was founded in 1976 in Inman, South Carolina, initially as a kitchen service company. The business later expanded into manufacturing kitchen hood systems under its Ventex Air Systems brand.

Dietary Equipment Co.

Columbia, South Carolina

Dietary Equipment Co. operates from Columbia, South Carolina, where it has served the foodservice industry for more than three decades.

FRS Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

FRS Foodservice & Restaurant Supply, based in Columbia, South Carolina, has served the Carolinas for more than 50 years. The company is now part of the Innovative Foodservice Group (IFG) family of companies.

Gehl Food & Beverage - Southeast

Walterboro, South Carolina

Gehl Food & Beverage operates a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Walterboro, South Carolina The site functions as the company's southeastern headquarters and production base, positioned to expand product capabilities toward the East Coast. The plant currently runs two aseptic production lines dedicated to 1-liter Tetra Slim carton filling.

PF Meat Company operates from its headquarters in Belton, South Carolina, with two retail butcher markets in Pendleton, South Carolina, and Toccoa, Georgia. The company's founding year and ownership structure are not publicly disclosed.

Performance Foodservice - Midlands

Newberry, South Carolina

Performance Foodservice – Midlands operates from a facility at 11531 SC-34 in Newberry, South Carolina. The division serves foodservice operators across South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.

Spartanburg Meat Processing operates from Spartanburg, South Carolina, where it runs a USDA-inspected facility under establishment number 21010. The plant is certified to SQF Level 2 under the Global Standards of Safe Quality Foods and follows USDA-approved HACCP plans for all production lines.

US Foods CHEF'STORE operates a wholesale cash-and-carry location in Columbia, South Carolina. The business traces its roots to 1955, and in March 2020 the former Smart Foodservice chain was acquired by US Foods and rebranded as CHEF'STORE.