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Chef boyardee born
Chef Boyardee
Canned pasta brand
This article is about the canned pasta product line. For its founder, see Ettore Boiardi.
Chef Boyardee is an American brand of canned pasta products sold internationally by Conagra Brands.
The company was founded by Italian immigrant Ettore Boiardi in Milton, Pennsylvania, U.S., in [1][2]
History
After leaving his position as head chef at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Ettore Boiardi opened a restaurant called Il Giardino d'Italia ("The Garden of Italy") in [3] at East 9th Street and Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.[4] The idea for Chef Boiardi came about when restaurant customers began asking Boiardi for his spaghetti sauce, which he began to distribute in milk bottles.[3] Four years later, in , Boiardi opened a factory and moved production to Milton, Pennsylvania, where he could grow his own tomatoes and mushrooms.[2] He decided to anglicize the name of his product to "