Burlodge

What Burlodge does

Burlodge is a privately held U.S. foodservice equipment company headquartered in Winston Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1984. Per its firmographic description, the company offers innovative foodservice meal delivery systems targeted at commercial and institutional food operations — i.e., customers such as hospitals, schools, correctional facilities, and contract catering operators that require bulk hot- and cold-meal transport from central kitchens to point-of-service locations.

The firm's product set centers on insulated meal delivery carts, tray systems, and related holding/transport equipment designed to maintain food temperature and safety across the rethermalization and distribution workflow typical of centralized institutional kitchens. However, the supplied data does not enumerate specific product SKUs, proprietary technology features, certifications, or installed-base metrics, so technical depth cannot be characterized beyond the general category of meal delivery hardware. No patents, trademarks, or regulatory disclosures are recorded in the input.

Burlodge operates with a workforce in the 101–250 range and maintains a primary web presence at burlodgeusa.com. The company is private, with no recorded parent entity, subsidiaries, funding rounds, M&A activity, or management team disclosures in the supplied dataset, and revenue figures are not available. As a result, the business model mechanics — direct sales versus dealer distribution, equipment-sale versus recurring-service revenue mix, and contract structure — cannot be precisely characterized from this input, though institutional foodservice OEMs of this profile typically combine capital equipment sales with aftermarket parts and service revenue.

Name

Burlodge

Website

https://burlodgeusa.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Foodservice Equipment

NAICS

Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241), Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (3333)

SIC

Refrigeration & Service Industry Machinery (3580)

akta.pro primary industry

Meal Distribution, Serving Lines & Point-of-Sale (Cafeteria Service) (EDAEAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cafeteria, Kitchen & Foodservice Equipment (Serving Lines, Refrigeration, Smallwares) (EDAEAIAJ)

Keywords

• Foodservice meal delivery
• Institutional food equipment
• Commercial food service
• Meal delivery systems
• Foodservice equipment manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Winston Salem

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel

Core offering

Burlodge manufactures and supplies foodservice meal delivery systems targeted at commercial and institutional food service operations. The company designs physical equipment that supports meal distribution workflows in settings such as healthcare, education, and other institutional foodservice environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Foodservice Meal Delivery Systems

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Hobart (ITW Food Equipment Group): Hobart, part of ITW, is a broad-line incumbent in commercial foodservice equipment — cooking, warewashing, and food holding — and overlaps with Burlodge in meal holding and serving equipment for large institutional accounts.

Direct peers

• Carter-Hoffmann: Carter-Hoffmann manufactures a broad line of foodservice equipment including meal delivery carts, heated holding cabinets, and transport equipment for healthcare and education. It competes directly with Burlodge across the meal delivery / rethermalization category.
• Hatco Corporation: Hatco specializes in food warming, holding, and toasting equipment for commercial foodservice. Its warming/holding cabinets and Glo-Ray equipment are commonly bundled in the same institutional meal-delivery specifications that Burlodge competes for.
• Duke Manufacturing: Duke Manufacturing produces commercial cooking, holding, and serving-line equipment for schools, healthcare, and restaurants. Its meal distribution and serving-line products compete with Burlodge for the same institutional food-service capital budgets.
• Vollrath Foodservice: Vollrath makes a wide range of foodservice equipment including holding, transporting, and serving equipment for institutional customers. It is a frequent competitor to Burlodge in cafeteria and patient feeding RFPs.
• Cambro Manufacturing: Cambro is a major US foodservice equipment manufacturer whose insulated transport carts, Camtherm systems, and food holding equipment directly overlap with Burlodge's meal delivery portfolio, especially in school nutrition and corrections segments.
• Aladdin Temp-Rite: Aladdin Temp-Rite manufactures insulated and temperature-controlled meal delivery systems for healthcare, education, and corrections — the same core product category Burlodge serves. Their product lines (insulated trays, pellet-base systems, rethermalization carts) overlap directly with Burlodge's meal delivery offering and target the same institutional buyers.
• Metro (InterMetro Industries): Metro manufactures foodservice material-handling and storage equipment — carts, shelving, and transport systems — frequently specified alongside or as substitutes for Burlodge meal delivery carts in hospital and school kitchens.
• Caddy Corporation: Caddy Corporation designs and builds mobile meal delivery carts, tray make-up systems, and patient feeding equipment for hospitals and long-term care. It is one of the closest direct competitors to Burlodge in temperature-controlled meal transport for institutional foodservice.
• Enthermics Medical Systems: Enthermics specializes in warming, rethermalization, and holding equipment for healthcare foodservice. While narrower than Burlodge's full meal-delivery-system portfolio, it competes head-on for the retherm and food-holding piece of the same institutional RFPs.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/burlodge-group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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