Caring People.
Great Food.

We Are Family

We partner with schools, senior centers, correctional facilities and health organizations to provide a wide range of healthy meals. And we do it to meet your precise needs. We will deliver a specific menu or create a broader meal program to fit your requirements and budget. But the biggest benefit of working with us is our people. We treat all clients like family, and we truly care about your success.

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Services with a Smile

Our team is dedicated to creating a positive, welcoming experience for every individual we serve, ensuring that each meal brings not just nourishment, but a sense of care and community. And of course, delivered with a smile.

Services We Offer

We offer a range of services designed to meet the unique needs of schools, senior centers, healthcare facilities, and more. Our flexible meal programs and comprehensive support services ensure that every client receives the highest quality care and convenience.

Food Service

We serve nutritious and appealing meals for everyone from school-aged students to senior citizens. We are continuously innovating to meet evolving tastes and dietary needs.

Nutrition+

We bring our food services to organizations looking to keep overhead down and convenience up. We always deliver an exceptional level of care and nutrition.

Senior Center Management

We manage total operations of senior centers by offering entertainment, exercise and education. We comply with county, state and federal guidelines.

Facility Management Services

We do more than provide great meals. We keep your facility humming through a myriad of support options, including cleaning service, exterior maintenance, work order software systems and strategic planning.
At The Nutrition Group, we do exactly what we say we will do. No surprises. Guaranteed.
- Ed Caswell, CEO

Industries We Serve

Our quality shines through with every organization that we have the privilege of serving. From school districts with 30,000 students to senior centers of 100 residents, we create plans specific to your needs.

Why Choose Us

Many companies offer food services. But for us, it’s about more than food. We are fulfilled by the physical and emotional nutrition that comes from delivering a healthy, tasty meal everyone looks forward to enjoying. Through taste-testing, trendspotting and chef innovations, we make every experience appetizing.

Everything you expect from The Nutrition Group carries through BTC Foods. BTC specializes in menus with originality and finesse. In the greater Philadelphia area, we provide meals to senior centers, day care and meals on wheels programs.

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Say Hello

Get in touch to learn more about our services and offerings! Feel free to contact us anytime – we’re here to help.

Ed Caswell

CEO, Majority Owner

Ed stands by a solid brand promise: “At The Nutrition Group, we try to do exactly what we say we will do. No surprises. Guaranteed.”

The Nutrition Group began when Walter McGrew and Ed Caswell purchased a small division of Potter McCune in June of 1975. Walter needed someone that would help grow Nutrition Inc. Providentially, Ed was in the right place at the right time. Walter offered him the opportunity to help grow the new business along with a share of the company. Ed enthusiastically accepted and became Vice President. The early years were characterized by transition, from a volume-based commissary operation to bid-based contract catering and then to contract food service management.

As with any successful business, many hours were invested, much experimentation was tried and many lessons were learned. The main key to early success was hiring quality, team-oriented management personnel and nourishing and encouraging their personal and professional growth.

Mr. McGrew retired in the early 1980’s and divested his interest to Ed in 1991. The leveraged buyout necessitated creative capitalization beyond bank financing. As it turned out, the idea to sell stock to key management personnel remains a powerful component in the company’s success. This has allowed The Nutrition Group to maximize growth opportunities and improve operational capabilities. Being an actively involved owner of the company is energizing, it lights the fire of pride and commitment because it is personal.

The Nutrition Group has enjoyed continual growth guided by their top management leadership team, which has been another hallmark throughout the years of our management philosophy: a strong, dedicated and focused top management team. The corporation has developed teamwork structures and principles within all levels of our business and closely monitors and supervises daily implementation and progress.

Ed’s customer-first philosophy that fueled company growth from the beginning is still the driving principle today. The employees of The Nutrition Group embrace that philosophy in all that they do. Today, The Nutrition Group serves over 240 school districts across six states and has a Commissary Division serving daycare and Head Start children, Senior Centers and Healthcare facilities. Also, the Facilities Management Services division provides custodial maintenance management, capital project management and owner’s representative services.

Ed’s parents and grandparents passed on their entrepreneurial beliefs. He was raised in a business household. He is grateful to Mr. McGrew his first partner and business mentor. He is grateful to God, his wives, family, the many “Nutritionites”, customers, vendors and outside sources of inspiration – all of which helped him to grow and develop into the person God has graced him to be. Ed believes, “We grow more through our hardships than blessings, but we are grateful for both.” He is a man of faith whose resourcefulness, perseverance and leadership helped build The Nutrition Group.

The integrity and commitment of The Nutrition Group business model, focusing on trying to consistently please the customer and sincerely attempting to do what we say we are going to do, is what sets us apart from the competition.