Empirical Foods

Empirical Foods
Company typePrivate
IndustryMeat processing
Founded1981 (1981)
Amarillo, Texas, U.S.
FoundersEldon Roth
Regina Roth
Headquarters
Websiteempiricalfoods.com

Empirical Foods, formerly named Beef Products Inc. (BPI), is an American meat processing company based in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. Prior to high media visibility of its products, it was a major supplier to fast food chains, groceries and school lunch programs. It had three additional plants, which closed in 2012.