Menu Maker Foods, LLC

Menu Maker Foods, LLC, doing business as Graves Foods, delivers subsistence food items—chilled, frozen, semi-perishable, and fresh foods including meats, produce, dairy, and prepared meals—to the Missouri Army National Guard as a prime contractor under a single-award BPA and monthly call orders, with all work on full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurement except for scattered small-business set-asides on individual call orders issued in 2025.

Menu Maker Foods is a for-profit subsidiary of Gold Star Foods, Inc., headquartered in Jefferson City, Missouri, and registered as a small disadvantaged business (self-certified). The parent entity, Gold Star Foods, holds a separate federal grant footprint but does not hold federal contracts; Menu Maker Foods carries the contract prime responsibility. The subsidiary itself reports woman-owned small business status and self-certified HUBZone joint venture designation, though the award record shows the company competing primarily on full-and-open calls rather than via set-aside vehicles—the majority of the 73 awards in the source carry no set-aside designation, with small-business set-asides appearing sporadically on individual 2025 call orders.

The customer base is highly concentrated: the Department of the Army Missouri Army National Guard anchors 26 awards valued at $3.2 million combined potential value, while the broader Department of the Army (non-Missouri Guard) accounts for 43 awards worth $410 thousand combined potential value, representing the full portfolio. Two remaining awards touch the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service. The company operates against two named parent BPAs with the Missouri National Guard: Blanket Purchase Agreement W912NS25AA001 (14 task orders, $340 thousand combined potential value) and the earlier vehicle W912NS15A0002 (23 task orders, $233 thousand combined potential value). The current primary vehicle, established April 29, 2025, carries a $750,000 ceiling through April 28, 2028, with monthly call orders ranging from roughly $800 to $70,000 per delivery cycle.

Activity has been volatile: the vendor recorded ten awards in both 2016 and 2025, but only three in 2018, with five awards in the first four months of 2026. Combined potential value across all 73 awards stands at $3.6 million, though only $930 thousand has been obligated (25% of ceiling). The award portfolio maps cleanly to NAICS 425110 (Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers)—49 of 73 awards—and NAICS 311412 (Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing)—20 awards—with PSC coding dominated by Meat, Poultry, and Fish (45 awards) and Housekeeping-Food (14 awards). The vendor maintains no subcontract footprint; all 73 awards are primes.