Gold Star, based in Ontario, CA, is the leading nutritional food distributor to K-12 schools in California, Arizona, and Nevada. The Company serves approximately 380 school districts comprised of more than 3,500 schools, enabling them to provide students nutritional meals through federal and state programs that include program-approved healthy ingredients. Gold Star's proprietary software platform and expertise in USDA commodity tracking provides a valuable service to schools, which receive reimbursements from federal and state governments based on compliance with strict and increasingly complex regulatory standards. Gold Star purchases products from more than 600 food manufacturers and farms and sells over 6,000 products of fresh bread and produce, as well as refrigerated, frozen and dry menu items.