Pet Food Express

{{Short description|American pet food store chain}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}}

{{primary sources|date=March 2010}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Pet Food Express

| logo = Pet Food Express.svg

| logo_size = 200px

| image = Pet Food Express in Oakland.jpg

| image_caption = A Pet Food Express store in Oakland

| type = Private company

| genre = Pet store

| foundation = 1986

| location = 500, 85th Avenue
Oakland, California

| industry = Retail

| products = Pet supplies

| owner = Michael Levy
Mark Witriol

| homepage =

}}

Pet Food Express is a California chain of retail stores that offers pet food, with a focus on premium brands, holistic, and organic pet food, as well as other pet supplies, and self-service dog washing facilities.

Pet Food Express CEO and co-owner Michael Levy started a dog training business in 1976 and opened his first San Francisco location in 1980, selling some food and supplies. In 1986, he left dog training to focus on retail and had expanded to three locations by the time his business partner, Mark Witriol, came aboard in 1992. They have since expanded, and have 54 locations in Northern California, with 9 more in Southern California.{{Cite web |last=February 2023 |first=Susan Dyer Reynolds |title=Business owner hosing homeless woman highlights city’s failures |url=https://www.marinatimes.com/business-owner-hosing-homeless-woman-highlights-citys-failures |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Marina Times |language=en-US}}

Pet Food Express partners with more than 250 non-profit animal rescue and shelter organizations, and regularly donate more than $1 million a year to those organizations. The company set up cat adoption centers in its stores starting in 2011 and claims that approximately 1,000 cats have been adopted through its California stores since the program's inception.{{cite web|last=Harmanci|first=Reyhan|title=San Francisco Teams with Pet Supply Stores on Cat Adoptions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/us/san-francisco-teams-with-pet-supply-stores-on-cat-adoptions.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=5 April 2012}} Pet Food Express has a high standard of quality for its food and products.{{Cite web |date=2022-10-28 |title=Pet Food Express opens 2nd Long Beach location in Belmont Shore • Long Beach Business Journal |url=https://lbbusinessjournal.com/news/pet-food-express-opens-2nd-long-beach-location-in-belmont-shore |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Long Beach Business Journal |language=en-US}}

In June 2022 the company sold to Rainier Partners, a private equity firm, to help grow the business further. {{cite web|title= Rainier Partners Invests in Pet Food Express, a Fast-Growing Omni-Channel Pet Retailer | url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220608005221/en/|work=Business Wire|accessdate=24 March 2023}}