MAMA

Mama'S Creations, Inc.

A maker of all-natural, ready-to-heat deli foods, Mama's Creations sells a family of brands — MamaMancini's meatballs, T&L Creative Salads, Olive Branch, and Crown 1 Foods — in the deli sections of thousands of grocery and convenience stores. Founder Dan Mancini built the company around the meatball-and-sauce recipe his grandmother Anna brought from Italy to Brooklyn in 1921; she never wrote it down, so young Dan learned it by heart so the tradition wouldn't be lost.