Taylor is a prestigious manufacturer of commercial grills, ice cream makers and beverage makers. The company operates in 125 countries and has some 160 distributors, including Bazinet-Taylor, and is now part of the Middleby brands.
Charles Taylor, owner of a small restaurant in Rockton, Illinois, started the brand in 1926. Because ice cream was so slow to make, he invented the automatic batch freezer (discontinued freezer). Then, through quality engineering, he continued to innovate, and his company became one of the largest restaurant equipment manufacturers in the world.