Our story started in 1983 with a frozen sweet roll...
Flying Food Group was founded in 1983 in Chicago with a single kitchen and one airline customer by legendary entrepreneur Sue Ling Gin, after she was served a half-frozen sweet roll on domestic airline flight. She vowed to do better and she did just that.
Market expansion
Reliable, authentic and carefully sourced meals forge an essential bond between us and our customers. Flying Food Group consistently supports that bond with exceptional meals and service backed by an uncompromising food safety culture, continuously fuelled by innovation and new market trends and executed with best in class efficiency.
Present days
Today, Flying Food Group is a network of 19 elite kitchens stretching from Hawaii to New York and providing custom meals and snacks for the world's leading airlines, as well as to upscale food retailers.
40+
years
19
catering facilities
2023, 2022, 2020
Pax Caterer of the Year – North America
Vision
Belonging, purpose, and social contribution lie at our very core. All the value we generate serves a greater cause: supporting the charitable foundation established by our visionary founder, Sue Ling Gin. Together, we embrace differences, pursue meaningful goals, and give back to make a positive impact on society.
Mission
Our mission is to become the forerunner in pioneering food solutions that cater to the dynamic lifestyles of on-the-go consumers while serving the noble cause of the Sue Gin Charitable Foundation. We strive to revolutionise the way people experience food by creating innovative and cutting-edge culinary experiences.
Company strategy
We build belonging, equity, and inclusion into our recruiting practices, and reinforce it with employee training, unit-based initiatives, and business practices to promote the creation of a culture of respect.
Catering
Provide an exceptional on-board passenger experience that enhances customer brand value.
Retail
Deliver top-notch prepared meal solutions to retail partners, from concept to industrialization
Digital
Offer digital solutions at the intersection of fintech, mobility, and retail, serving global mobile users
Partnership
Frankenberg is a family business located in the heart of Europe and since its foundation in 1985, the company focused on the development and production of finest frozen meals for the world’s leading airlines. Frankenberg also produces for the growing and fast developing retail and food service markets. Target of the Frankenberg FFG Joint Venture is to become the US market leader in frozen meals and components for airlines and convenience retail. Successful partnerships require trust, communication and a shared purpose, and we are focusing a lot on the following two factors that we believe contributed and contribute most to our partnership success: Alignment of parent and partnership objectives and effective internal communication and trust.
Corporate Venturing
To meet customer demands for authentic cuisine, innovation, and digital aid, we initiated a Corporate Venturing Program in 2020. Our 50-50 Joint Venture with Move Fast LLC helps manage retail and payments in complex scenarios.
Start-up Incubation
We launched our Start-up Incubation program in partnership with Move Fast (Most). Located in Grapevine, TX, near DFW airport, our incubator offers:
Workspace
Funding
Mentoring
Education
Networking
Charitable foundation
Giving back to society is our ultimate purpose and at the core of everything we do. Maximizing the value of Flying Food Group will maximize our contribution to a better world with all our company profits ultimately benefiting the charitable foundation of our founder, Sue Ling Gin, supporting people in need with food, healthcare, education or immigration support. Recent projects of the Charitable Foundation are the establishment of onsite clinics available to our employees and their families or the Digital Academy – an Incubator for non-for-profit start-ups developing digital solutions for healthcare or education.