Papa Tony's Hot Sauce specializes in gourmet hot sauces using fresh ingredients. Papa Tony’s offers five varieties of hot sauce including Garlic Habanero, Mango Habanero, Ghostly Garlic, Scorpion’s Kiss and Caribbean Crush. 30% of all ingredients are sourced locally from Washington farms. What began as a pandemic project has grown into a thriving family business. In April 2021 while living in New Orleans, owner Tony Wilson decided to make a Garlic Habanero and a Mango Habanero hot sauce for his Carne Asada taco dinner. The end result was very tasty, and when posted to social media his followers began to inquire about purchasing the product. Tony and his wife decided to lean into this idea - His wife made the logo and soon they began bottling and selling at a rapid pace, with 300 bottles selling in the first month! They now produce in West Seattle and are a staple in grocery stores and Farmers Markets. They currently employ eight people and were recently awarded the 2023 Emerging Business of the Year award by the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and has also been featured on King 5 Evening, Seattle Refined, Seattle Met and Pittsburgh Today Live.

As far as the inspiration behind the name, as a toddler, Wilson's daughter called him "Papa" and then one day she learned that his name was Tony and started calling him "Papa Tony". When Tony launched the business, he said, "Oh, I’m gonna go with that, Papa Tony’s Hot Sauce."