DiCarlo News
The story of DiCarlo Food Service, a family affair of 60 years on Long Island
Reprinted from: https://greaterlongisland.com/the-story-of-dicarlo-food-service-a-family-affair-of-60-years-on-long-island/ Feb 13, 2023 Knishes from Gabila’s Knish in Copiague. Pasta from Bruno’s Specialty Foods in West Sayville. Even mixers from The Murph’s Famous Bloody Mary Mix in Melville. Those are just some of the food items that are grown, raised, baked, battered or otherwise sourced from Long Island. And they end up in restaurants from Maine to Virginia. It’s all through DiCarlo Food Service, one of the largest privately owned wholesale food distributors more
DiCarlo Goes Solar
The summer of 2013, DiCarlo Food Service installed a 902.77kw solar panel system, consisting of 3058, 295-watt solar panels on the roof of our facility, exemplifying our commitment to environmental health and sustainability. The sun produces vast amounts of energy; enough in a single minute to meet the world’s energy needs for an entire year. Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on earth. A solar energy system allows us to capture free sunlight more
DiCarlo Partners with Island Harvest and Elara in the fight Against Hunger
Island Harvest was created in 1992 by one woman with a cooler, a station wagon, and a strong desire to help people in need. Linda Breitstone, the founder, was infuriated that food from a local convenience store was being thrown away at the end of the day- with a soup kitchen down the street. The mission at Island Harvest is “to end hunger and reduce food waste on Long Island.” Island Harvest serves as the more
DiCarlo Earns a Superior Rating
On October 25, 2018, Merieux NutriSciences, a third party food safety management company conducted a food safety and sanitation inspection of our facility. We earned a 99.1% grade which is a Superior rating, the highest attainable.
A Corporate Social Mission that Delivers
What was just a concept two years ago is now a social mission-driven business helping to feed hundreds of thousands of individuals struggling with hunger in the United States. With more than 49 million people in the U.S. without enough to eat, Dan Grinberg founded Elara Foodservice Disposables with the purpose of creating not only an innovative foodservice disposables manufacturer, but also a company that built hunger relief into the DNA of the company. At the more
Blue is the New Green
Here at DiCarlo Distributors Inc. we have proven that DiCarlo Blue has environmental “Green” running through its veins. Over the past few years we have analyzed every part of our operation through a recycling and environmental preservation mindset. Here are some of the ways “Blue is the New Green”: Participant of LIPA’s 2016 Commercial Efficiency Program Replaced all Metal Halide lighting with fluorescent and LED lighting. This lighting project enhancement will help decrease air pollution and more
