Cuizina's roots reach back to the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, Washington and the family's first Italian restaurant. Known throughout the city for their specialty, homemade ravioli, the business grew over the next twenty years to include two more restaurants and a sizable take-out clientele.

Two of the owner's younger sons, who had grown up in the restaurant business, realized the need for consistent, high quality pastas in the food service industry. In 1984 they started Cuizina as a USDA authorized manufacturing facility to fill the niche.

It quickly became apparent that food service was not the only segment that was looking for high quality, I.Q.F. (individually quick frozen) pastas. The business has since expanded to include not only the full service restaurants, but also fresh salad manufacturers, soup manufacturers, industrial (further processors), canners, and retort, as well as private label.

Over the years, one thing that has not changed at Cuizina is our commitment to quality. As a result, what has started out as a plan to service the Pacific Northwest soon expanded to national and international distribution.