The foodservice provider sector feeds millions of Americans every day—in university dining halls, hospital cafeterias, corporate campuses, and stadium concourses. These companies operate on long-term institutional contracts, with predictable volumes and captive audiences. That structural stability makes the cage-free transition more plannable here than almost anywhere else in the food industry. Simply put: there's no excuse for falling behind.

The top five FSPs are reporting strong, transparent progress. But others have continued to delay—despite strong cage-free supply, stabilized prices, and a regulatory landscape that’s only moving in one direction: cage-free. Laws banning cruel battery cages have been passed in nine states, and the institutional clients these companies serve are increasingly writing animal welfare standards into their own procurement requirements.

Every year a company fails to follow through, millions of birds remain confined in obsolete, barren cages so small they cannot spread their wings, dust-bathe, or engage in the most basic natural behaviors. These animals have already waited long enough.

This report names the leaders. It also names the companies that made voluntary public promises and have chosen, year after year, not to keep them.