The Urnex brand was born in 1936, and was founded upon the idea of offering café cleaning products designed to be safe, effective, and simple to use. For nearly 90 years, Urnex has operated with a dedicated focus on coffee & tea cleaning, and has earned a spot among the “go-to” cleaning product brands within…
Houston’s added Mylk Labs Oatmeal as a vendor partner in Fall 2022. Mylk Labs offers premium oatmeal made using the principles of whole, simple ingredients and no artificial or processed additives. Mylk Labs is also a woman-owned and Asian American & Pacific Islander-owned company started in California with the goal of sharing healthy and convenient…
Beginnings The name Kerry is well known within the beverage and foodservice industries as an innovator, delivering a wide variety of operator-friendly offerings, while maintaining a high quality experience for the end customer. Originating as a dairy operation in southwestern Ireland in 1972, Kerry has grown over the past 50 years to serve a global…
The word “numi” means “citrus” in Arabic. Founders Ahmed Rahim and Reem Hassani named their company Numi after a steeped dried desert lime drink they grew up enjoying throughout their childhood. As brother and sister, Ahmed and Reem had a vision to share their family’s love of tea and its health and cultural connections with…
Ginger beer has seen a surge over the past few years, thanks in no small part to the rise in popularity of the Moscow Mule cocktail. Distinguished by its memorable copper mug presentation, the Moscow Mule has quickly grown to be a standard offering in bars and restaurants around the country. And ginger beer, as…
The year was 1828 when the world of chocolate was forever changed. The father and son Dutch chocolate makers Casparus and Coenraad van Houten had invented a new way of extracting excess cocoa butter from roasted cocoa beans (Coenraad would later refine the resulting cocoa powder by treating it with alkaline salts). This mixture combined…
The last week of April, Houston’s Rebecca Phillips, Geoff Dann, Amanda Hackathorn and Jarrod Bowren were invited to the Carlisle Foodservice headquarters and manufacturing plant in Oklahoma City, OK, and they were accompanied by our local Carlisle Broker, RHI. This trip included tours of two manufacturing plants, Carlisle’s distribution warehouse, and a meeting inside the…
Dr. Smoothie Brands originally came on board with Houston’s in June 2011, starting with approximately 50 different smoothie and frappe mixes. Over the past six and half years, our relationship with Dr. Smoothie Brands has blossomed, and they have quickly become one of Houston’s top vendors. “Dr. Smoothie has become one of our lead-in vendors…
San Francisco-based David Rio was founded in 1996 by David Scott Lowe and Rio Miura and has grown to become a market leader in premium chai products around the world. With a strong following in Asia, Europe and Mexico David Rio has partnered with Houston’s to increase brand awareness and availability here in the United States.…