[1] It occupies a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) plant built in the 1990s in the Green Island Industrial Park at the northern edge of American Canyon.

[3] In 2011, after over a year of negotiation to expand operations with the city, the company indicated that it may move future growth to another state.

[5] The company was founded in San Francisco by Italian immigrant Giuseppe Luigi Mezzetta and his son Daniel in 1935.

Originally, the company distributed imported specialty food items to delicatessens and restaurants in San Francisco.

[8] At one time, Mezzetta owned the Tulelake Horseradish brand, but sold that business to Beaverton Foods of Oregon.