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Butterball Butter: Bulk Butter for America's Biggest Brands
Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® wow your guests by adding elegance to the tabletop. They have a smooth, creamy texture and pleasing buttery taste. Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® present beautifully in a ramekin or dish and help demonstrate your attention to detail.
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Butterball has been recognized as one of West Michigan’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in 2026. We are proud to be recognized alongside our peers in the West Michigan region and be placed in the running for the national award. We strive continuously to create an environment where our team can thrive and create the best experience for our customers.
“The Redzone program focuses on the operations management team taking ownership for their opportunities and improvements. It’s an emphasis on action, making the best working practices habitual and putting reviews in place that move the performance dial.
BRC Global Standards is a leading safety and quality certification program used by over 23,000 certificated suppliers in 123 countries, with certification issued through a worldwide network of accredited certification bodies. The Standards guarantee the standardization of quality, safety, and operational criteria, and ensure that manufacturers fulfill their legal obligations and provide protection for the end consumer.
The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® competition identifies and honors companies that deliver exceptional human resource practices and an impressive commitment to their employees. Organizations are assessed based on categories such as communication, work-life balance, employee education, diversity, recognition, retention and more. Butterball has won this national award for more than 10 consecutive years running.
The Top 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the Nation list celebrates workplaces that go above and beyond. These companies foster innovation, lead the way with best-in-the-nation HR practices, and create environments where employees can thrive. Being part of the Top 101 means setting the bar high for workplace culture and creating spaces where all employees feel valued and empowered to succeed.
This award was presented to Butterball® Farms, Inc. for outstanding leadership in innovation and partnership in new product development.
The People First award recognizes suppliers who demonstrate their commitment to the people, embrace diversity, and proactively develop talent and resource plans that benefit mutual organizations. Mark, and Butterball® Farms, Inc., have a reputation for making a difference in the lives of individuals and communities.
Celebrating the country’s most innovative business leaders, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year is recognized as one of the most prestigious business award programs in the country. As an award semi-finalist, Mark has demonstrated leadership in innovation, financial performance, and commitment to his business and community.
Show your guests you thought of every detail. Made from farm-fresh, high-quality sweet cream, Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® add elegance to the tabletop — and ease to your kitchen.
Gusseted three-pound bag with a zipper-style closure keeps every ball fresh.
Convenient bulk format pours cleanly and stacks neatly in the freezer.
Choose the profile that fits your menu — both available at your local distributor.
Four pre-portioned butter balls equal an ounce, so recipes stay consistent and prep skips the measuring cups and the cleanup.
Finish steamed vegetables with a glossy butter coating, or drop one into a butter burger to add sweetness to every savory bun.
Butter balls melt smoothly into sauces and gravies for a rich base — even in marinara, drawing out the natural flavor of the tomatoes and herbs.
Looking for something sweet to melt into your desserts or dinner recipes? Butterball has many options concocted with brown sugar and sweet barbecues. Try our apple herb for a punch of fresh-picked apple, our Asian BBQ packed with sweet brown sugar, or our brown butter with sage paired with parmesan cheese and garlic.
For those who prefer a more salty or savory flavor profile, we have plenty of options. Bacon shallot and savory bacon are perfect options for breakfast recipes, or even pastas and seafood. Steakhouse flavored dollops will enhance any beef, potato, or chicken dish. Try a bit of tangy and robust horseradish and bleu cheese with your burgers. Want a punch of salt? We have plenty of salted custom butters.
Spice things up with our bacon pepper jack, blackened cajun, or parmesan black pepper, complete with spices like paprika, garlic, cayenne pepper, onion powder, black peppercorn, and dijon mustard. We also offer garlic herb and garlic parmesan perfect for any dish. Chile lime cilantro is another great flavor mixed with mayonnaise and feta cheese.
Seafood, pastas, and rice all pair great with our fruit-inspired flavors. Try citrus garlic, lemon dill and lemon herb for a more citrus fruit flavor, or the apple herb for a lighter, sweeter taste. Looking for something more specific? We’re happy to custom create a personalized flavor and turn it into dollops of butter.
Our tubs come pre-mixed with house favorites or custom formulations designed to your exact specs. Your team grabs, scoops, and gets back to cooking.
Want something that’s unmistakably yours? Butterball’s culinary team works directly with regional and national restaurant groups to develop proprietary compound butter flavors that no one else is using.
Our tubs seal tight between uses to keep the butter fresh and your refrigerator organized. They’re ready for a busy back-of-house environment.
Butterball Farms earned BRC-AA certification, one of the food industry’s most stringent quality and safety benchmarks.
Bulk butter tubs are available in multiple sizes. Talk to us about what makes sense for your volume and storage setup.
Butterball Farms’ bulk butter tubs are home to our flavored compound butters, a.k.a. butter mixed with herbs, spices, aromatics, or specialty ingredients to give your dishes that extra something that keeps customers coming back for more.
Our existing flavor lineup covers crowd favorites like garlic herb, but the real magic happens when you tell us what you’re missing. Custom flavors are available for qualifying customers, and our culinary and R&D team loves the challenge of getting the flavor profile exactly right.
Browse our flavored butter lineup or start a conversation about going custom.
Butterball Farms has been crafting butter products for over 60 years. In 2022, that commitment earned us BRC-AA certification, a globally recognized standard for food safety and quality. The butter in that tub has been held to a serious standard. That’s the promise behind every bulk butter tub we ship.
Our beautiful butter shapes wow guests by adding elegance to the tabletop. Though it may seem like a minor detail, the butter you offer your guests is an integral part of their first impression and sets the tone as the meal unfolds. By serving beautiful butter, you make a statement as telling as the rich, clean butter taste that lingers on the palette. It tells your guests you thought of every last detail, making them remember you and come back for more.
Catered events require many intricate details to come together. Timing is incredibly important when it comes to providing top-quality dishes, and we can help speed up a few tasks and simplify your process. Our individual butter portions are ready to serve and easy to pop out of packaging and place at table settings while prepping your event. Our pre-flavored butter helps cut down on food preparation. Whether you’re creating a sweet or savory dish, these pre-portioned, flavor-packed dollops of butter can be quickly added as a finishing butter to steaks, vegetables, and so much more.
Our Medallions are a classic. They make a bold statement with their simplicity. You can’t go wrong with this versatile shape paired with a creamy, buttery taste.
We’re committed to offer comprehensive customization options, including the ability to customize:
Butterball offers both small and large bulk orders for mid-sized to large businesses and restaurants. Personalize your order by selecting the quantity that makes the most sense for you — our low minimum order sizes are perfect for trying new flavors.
Choose between spreads and blends, sauces, dollops, medallions, and rolls, or butter tubs.
Our fillings can be used in a range of foods, from chicken to pastries and anything in between. We design our fillings to complement your dish without overpowering it.
Some of our most popular products include butter with breadcrumbs and cheese for a gooey and creamy filling for salmon. Our chili pepper adobo filling pairs great with chicken and is often mixed with breadcrumbs and garlic.
We can create fillings in ready-to-go dollops with extras like spinach or lemon herb already mixed, or you can order a base filling and mix in whatever additional ingredients you choose.
Are you looking to layer in more flavor to your product and make your servings look even better on the plate? At Butterball, we are always excited to innovate new toppings to create the perfect blend to complement your product.
We can do any topping you like, from sweet to savory. Some of our most popular toppings include cinnamon and brown sugar for breadsticks and blue cheese butter topping for steak. We also have an ever-increasing variety of products for Mexican dishes, including chimichurri, baja, suiza enchilada, and chipotle lime.
Our customizable butters also have endless combinations and applications. Make your oysters shine with butter featuring spinach, breadcrumbs, garlic, or any combination of our other flavors. Those combinations can also be great with chicken breast, just like our sun-dried tomato topping.
When noting the difference between a flavored butter spread and a butter blend, the important factor is that “spread” is a functional term. We create our creamy, delicious spreads by blending the perfect mix of butter and oils.
A butter blend is comprehensive and personalized to fit your goal. Whether it’s straight butter mixed with mouthwatering seasonings or a mixture of margarine, oil, butter, or even water, we work until the flavor is just right. Our blends and spreads are functional and help cut costs without sacrificing quality.
Convenience is the number one reason our customers choose butter spreads over other options. For restaurants and commercial kitchens, you have to work fast. There’s no need to remove butter from the fridge for hours in order to soften it for use. Our flavored butter spreads give you instant access to mixing your recipes or topping off a dish. If tubs of hardened butter aren’t working out for you, try a butter spread for simple, immediate use.
Butter blends are a great choice when pairing functionality with a lower budget. The option to blend other alternatives into your custom creation allows cost sensitivity without lessening your ability to create cuisine that everyone will be talking about. There are dozens of options available in place of regular butter to give you the most comprehensive personalization experience possible.
Cut costs by opting for a delicious alternative to butter spreads. Our whipped margarine blends utilize a margarine base with other tasty and efficient oils added for great texture and lower cost. While there are slight flavor differences between a margarine base and a butter base, we work to create the exact flavor you’re searching for no matter your budget.
These are just some of the custom glaze creations we can make for you to save your staff time while putting flavor first.
These are just some of the custom gravies we can make to save your staff time without sacrificing flavor.
For 70 years, Butterball® Farms has been a leading manufacturer of shaped and flavored butters available through distributors nationwide. Today, we’ve evolved beyond butter to develop custom sauces, spreads, and flavor bases designed for today’s brands.
Savory, sweet, rich and creamy, hot and spicy — we help brands create custom flavors that elevate their offerings. Bring us a flavor idea and we’ll craft it.
From design to packaging, every butter or flavor solution is endlessly customizable. Whether you are looking for bulk options or pre-portioned, we’ve got you covered!
From small-batch innovation to national roll-outs, we bring the same attention to quality, consistency, and collaboration at every stage of growth.
Our Solutions
Most of our work is custom. And every flavor we make can be pre-portioned into dollops, tubs, medallions, chef rolls, and custom shapes. Here’s what we build most often, but if your menu calls for something else, the answer is usually yes.
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A few of our most popular flavor solutions are stocked at your local distributor — trusted across foodservice and industrial.
Butter doesn’t have to be an afterthought. With Butterball® Farms, it becomes something your guests remember. From tabletop service to back-of-house flavor boosts, our craveable butter portions show that your team thought of every last detail. Also, learn how to cut down on food waste and save with individual butter portions.
Whether you need convenience in the kitchen or elegance on the dining table, our single-serve butter pats help in all parts of restaurants. Individual pats also help control portion sizes in both the front and back of house.
We help food manufacturers complete their prepared meals with preportioned butter. From a classic salted or unsalted pat to a flavored butter dollop, there’s no better choice than Butterball® Farms.
Interested in individual butter with your name on it? We’ve partnered with many major brands on private label butter. From restaurant chains to grocery stores to hotels and meal kits, our butter is everywhere—but you’d never know it.
Receive your custom marinades in tubs, barrels, or pails — a great choice for restaurants, food manufacturers, and foodservice kitchens. Pre-packaged and ready to use, so you minimize prep time and maximize flavor.
Tell us about your concept, and we’ll create a custom marinade format and packaging for your business. From bulk to portion-controlled options, we build the right format to fit your application needs.
From flavor to format to packaging, every specialty marinade or custom flavor solution is endlessly customizable with Butterball Farms. Our team of flavor experts will work with you to create the unique product that’s right for your business and customers can’t get anywhere else.
We can create products that are Clean Label, kosher, halal, vegan, or that accommodate a spectrum of dietary preferences and requirements for your customers.
From concept to full-scale production, we’re with you from the first brainstorm to the final batch—no guesswork, no handoffs.
Need a new flavor sample yesterday? We offer rapid sample development to bring your ideas to life and get them to market faster.
Collaborate directly with our R&D department to develop custom marinades and flavors for your kitchen.
We uphold the highest quality standards, with an awarded BRC AA rating that shows our commitment to quality.
Every great flavor has the power to enrich every bite. Similarly, we believe that our business should enrich lives. When you choose Butterball® Farms, you’re choosing more than a commercialization partner. You’re supporting our mission to enrich lives and the communities we touch. Learn more about our mission.
Leo Peters, inventor and the founder of Butterball® Farms, Inc., purchases the trademark Butterball from Ada Walker of Wyoming, Ohio on February 16th.
The company, Peters Pak, which later becomes Butterball® Farms, Inc. was founded. It was originally located on Wealthy Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Peters Pak moved to its current location on Buchanan Avenue in Grand Rapids.
Production of embossed butter roses for foodservice begins.
Leo Peters sells Butterball® IP to Butterball® Turkey, retaining the right to license the name.
McDonald’s purchases embossed butter for their hotcakes. Butterball® Farms, Inc. continues to supply butter pats to McDonald’s.
The company name changes from Peters Pak to Butterball® Farms, Inc.
Butterball® Farms, Inc. modernizes the process of freezing butter. First dairy company to use freeze tunnel for product processing in US.
Leo Peters passes away at the age of 86 on July 19. Control of Butterball® Farms, Inc. is passed to Mark Peters, Leo’s son.
Butterball® Farms, Inc. develops Butterball® Butter Premium Balls®.
Butterball® Farms, Inc., begins production of 3D holiday shapes.
Sells first flavored butter portions to Birds Eye Foods for microwave vegetable trays.
Quik-Creations® Butter Sauces are introduced to the foodservice market.
Butterball® Farms, Inc. purchases the Creekside Creamery® name.
Designed and built machine to produce the only wrapped 1oz. medallions in the world for Blue Apron.
The introduction of automation and implementation of advanced robotic systems in the production plant marking a new era of innovation.
Production of first-ever flow-wrapped butter medallion.
The launch of Butterball® Farms, Inc.’s first-ever flavored shaped butter, Honey with Cinnamon Sugar Butter Hive.
Butterball® Farms, Inc. expanded its capabilities beyond shaped and flavored butter to include custom flavored sauces, marinades, gravies, cream cheese, and more.
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After running the numbers, one large-scale wholesale corporation discovered that partnering with Butterball® Farms generated $200k in labor savings compared to producing their product in-house.
One popular American fast-food chain has used our flavored butter on a signature item for years. Even after all this time, their customers have demanded that the item stay on the menu.
By adding our flavor solution to their burgers, another popular American fast-food chain was able to increase their profit by $0.90/burger.
After running the numbers, one large-scale wholesale corporation discovered that partnering with Butterball® Farms generated $200k in labor savings compared to producing their product in-house.
One popular American fast-food chain has used our flavored butter on a signature item for years. Even after all this time, their customers have demanded that the item stay on the menu.
By adding our flavor solution to their burgers, another popular American fast-food chain was able to increase their profit by $0.90/burger.
A few of our favorite flavor matches — a starting point for your shelves and prepared meals.
Bleu cheese, steakhouse, and Asian BBQ
Herb shallot, Asian soy ginger, and pesto butter
Parmesan black pepper, caramelized onion and bacon, and hollandaise
Roasted garlic, parmesan, scampi butter, and lemon herb
Chile lime cilantro, chimichurri, ancho pepper, and chipotle ranch
Lemon dill, blackened cajun, and soy sesame
Parmesan, truffle, cajun, and Nashville hot butter
Sun-dried tomato, spinach, garlic, and breadcrumbs
Spicy soy ginger, lemon dill, and Asian BBQ
Honey vanilla, cinnamon, spicy honey, pumpkin, and white chocolate
We believe that enriching lives starts with supporting people. Our approach to human sustainability includes programs and practices that create opportunity, promote growth, and build stronger communities and long-term relationships with customers.
Mark Peters, CEO of Butterball® Farms, co-founded The Source, a non-profit based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The non-profit equips participating employers—including ours—with the best community resources to help support their employees during unforeseen or challenging times. By eliminating systematic barriers to employment, people are given a pathway to both economic and personal well-being. Through The Source, Butterball® Farm team members have access to:
Our economic sustainability approach is all about doing business responsibly, from the ingredients we choose to the partners we work with.
We are committed to sourcing materials that meet strict ethical and environmental standards. This includes a focus on:
We’ve implemented lean principles across our operations to reduce waste, streamline production, and improve efficiency without compromising the quality or flavor you expect.
Delicious butters from Butterball® Farms enhance the flavor and presentation of any dish. Our famous Butterball® Farms Butter Premium Balls®, trademarked Roses, and medallions of salted or unsalted butter can be found at distributors across the U.S. We also offer a wide range of gourmet butter flavors, from sweet Maple Brown Sugar to savory Parmesan Black Pepper, in a variety of formats.
wide range of gourmet butter flavorsIf you want to provide your guests with a truly exceptional dining experience, look to Butterball® Farms. For decades, we’ve provided discerning brands with innovative, signature sauces, butters, glazes, marinades, and more that can’t be found anywhere else. Talk with us today on how we can help you solve your food challenges and create a customized solution that meets your needs.
signature sauces
Four drops a year, built around what moves in each window. Flavor direction, plate and pack applications, and the formats you can run without adding prep hours at unit level.
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Herb-forward and citrus. Lighter plates, brunch service, and patio season.
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Summer
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Grill, seafood, and burger applications. Heavy on compound butters.
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Fall
Fall
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Brown butter, sage, maple, and warm spice across entrees and bakery.
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Holiday
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Prime rib, seafood, and bread service through the holiday window.
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Our individual butter portions are available in a variety of formats from distributors across the U.S.
Standard flavors and shapes cover most operations, but the majority of what we make is built to spec. Our culinary and R&D team develops proprietary flavors, portion sizes, packaging, and logo dies — then runs them at production scale.
Looking for a way to add bold flavor to your offerings? Our custom aiolis and flavored mayonnaise products offer endless possibilities!
From classic garlic aioli to innovative flavors like sun-dried tomato, street corn, or chipotle mayo, our expertly crafted condiments can add pizzazz to everything from sandwiches to dipping sauces.
You could choose any supplier, so why not choose a flavor partner instead? With decades of experience, award-winning products, and a passion for innovation, we create premium custom flavors that make your offerings stand out from the competition. Our commitment to quality and customization means you get products tailored to your brand, not someone else’s, so you can deliver a craveable culinary experience every single time.
“Butterball is always been a good company to pick up from or even picking up there for 20 years and everybody’s always professional and nice.”
Breakfast buffets and self-serve stations feel effortless with pre-shaped butter. Guests appreciate the elegant little detail alongside their toast or pancakes.
Buying in bulk from a wholesale supplier minimizes processing and delivery fees, keeping your ingredient costs down with a single delivery.
Each ball is a quarter ounce — four to the ounce — so measuring is accurate and consistent every time, with no guesswork in your recipes.
Premeasured single servings mean no more butter measuring during prep. Chefs and line cooks reclaim time to spend perfecting the food itself.
Butterball Farms brings together craftsmanship, care, and creativity. Since 1956, we’ve partnered with some of the world’s most respected food brands, but our greatest pride comes from the people who make that work possible.
We believe meaningful work and meaningful lives go hand in hand.
Here, you’ll find:
A workplace rooted in six guiding principles we live by
Butterball Farms has been recognized locally and nationally as a Best and Brightest Company to Work For® since 2014, reflecting a commitment to creating a supportive and engaging work environment. From day one, team members are encouraged to:
We strive to make work an integrated, positive part of life, not something that competes with it.
Labor Savings
$200K
in labor savings vs. producing in-house
After running the numbers, one large-scale wholesale corporation discovered that partnering with Butterball Farms generated $200k in labor savings compared to producing their product in-house.
Outsourcing compound butter production to Butterball Farms saves your team valuable prep time. In addition to labor savings, we customize formats to your unique operational needs — streamlining assembly, increasing efficiency, and enhancing consistency across your process.
Cravability
By demand
customers keep a signature item on the menu
One popular American fast-food chain has used Butterball Farms flavored butter on a signature item for years. Even after all this time, their customers have demanded that the item stay on the menu.
Today’s customers crave bold, memorable flavors they can’t find anywhere else — Butterball Farms can help you craft that unique signature flavor that drives brand loyalty and keeps them coming back for more.
Profits
+$0.90
added profit per signature burger
By adding our premium compound butter atop their signature hamburgers, one popular American fast-food chain was able to increase its profit by $0.90/burger.
The craveable, high-quality flavor drives both higher price points and increased sales — resulting in more profit with every meal served.
Versatility
1 → 5
sauces built from one speed-scratch base
A top-rated brand uses our butter sauce base as their speed scratch base to create five different sauces for their entrees.
Butterball Farms’ Quik-Creations® Sauce saves time, reduces labor, and serves as a versatile, ready-to-use foundation for sauces, soups, gravies, glazes, and more — delivering a perfect canvas for culinary creativity across all dayparts and menu items.
Reliable
Since 1972
supplying a key ingredient, without fail
One of America’s largest fast-food chains has trusted Butterball Farms to supply a key ingredient for one of their signature items since 1972.
While many food manufacturers and foodservice operators face challenges finding dependable suppliers, Butterball Farms sets itself apart with a proven track record of reliable order fulfillment, accurate shipments, and consistent service that customers can count on.
Butterball Farms butter is the best choice for caterers seeking to consistently impress their guests and improve the food preparation process.
Butter is the backbone of impressive flavor profiles, creating delectable sauces and spreads that make guests ask, “What’s your secret?” Better butter is always the answer! Delicious dining experiences turn into unforgettable meal memories with top-of-the-line butter. By giving your catering patrons the gift of better-tasting dishes made with high-quality butter, you’re earning great reviews, recommendations, and life-long clients.
Our premium European butter is the creamiest and most flavorful on the market, made from farm-fresh cream. We’ve been the leading provider of both flavored and shaped butter for over 60 years for a reason—once you experience Butterball butter, you won’t be settling for the basics ever again.
Not only do our butters taste incredible, but you can also be assured that every batch is crafted intentionally and with our customers in mind. We have received many awards and certifications for food safety, including BRC Global Standards certification. BRC graded Butterball Farms AA, the highest rating a manufacturer can receive, for our quality as a butter manufacturer.
Why does better butter matter? Butter is highly versatile, providing a rich flavor to each one of your dishes. When you add a Butterball Farms product to your recipes, your catering guests will be raving about every part of the menu—and returning to your services for all of life’s most delicious moments.
Finishing butter adds another layer of flavor to finished dishes of all varieties. Proteins like steak, salmon, beef tenderloin, and chicken are made even more succulent when topped with a flavored finishing butter like Asian BBQ or citrus garlic. Tender pasta dishes and sauteed vegetables are instantly transformed with finishing butter as well—think brown butter with sage, spicy soy ginger, or lemon herb. Whatever flavor profile you’re seeking to achieve, we’re happy to help with our fantastic finishing butters.
Stand out from the catering competition with your own uniquely flavored butter options. With Butterball Farms, you can customize butter flavors to pair with any dish or occasion. Sweet butters infused with brown sugar or apple, spicy chili butters, zesty citrus butters, and smokey, herbaceous butters await—the mouthwatering possibilities are endless! Start creating your custom catering butter today (volume minimums apply).
Clarified butter can be used for a number of different purposes. These include but are not limited to:
Seafood dishes: Cook seafood the right way with a rich clarified butter that will provide a beautiful browned color to shrimp, scallops, and salmon alike. You can also use melted drawn butter for dipping crab legs!
Vegetables: Vegetables can be elevated in flavor and texture by being tossed into a stir fry with clarified butter.
Meat: Clarified butter can be used to accentuate the rich meaty flavor of a well-cooked steak or enhance the fatty texture of a porkchop.
In addition to our premium butter products, we also have plenty of other delicious items to include in your consumer packaged goods. Our staff applies the same innovation, expertise, and passion they have for butter to our other products.
Our Butterball® Butter Premium Balls®, butter Trademarked Roses, and medallions add flavor and flair to dining rooms, while kitchens use our flavored butters in the preparation of many dishes.
Food manufacturers rely on our premium butters to enhance prepared meals and heat-and-serve entrées and sides. For many of them, we create custom butter flavors that consumers love and competitors can’t match.
Flavored butter dollops are delicious mounds of butter, pre-portioned and ready to add to your packaged produce, seafood, meat, and prepared meals. By using flavored butter dollops, you will realize efficiencies in cost and labor with no need to procure, stock, and mix individual ingredients. Most importantly, craveable flavored butter from Butterball® Farms will help increase store traffic and provide higher basket rings.
We help national and regional food distributors grow their butter category with our line of premium, specialty products and by providing innovative, value-added programs. flavored butter from Butterball® Farms will help increase store traffic and provide higher basket rings.
Major airlines serve individual custom design butters on their first-class international flights. Cruise ships use our Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® on their dinner tables and buffets. We also supply butter to the Military and Government agencies.
Caterers love to use our individual butter servings in their table settings. They also use our flavored butters and sauces in creating many of their dishes.
For quality and convenience, meal-kit companies include our wrapped butter medallions and flavored dollops as an ingredient in their recipes to create an unbelievable consumer experience.
Higher Education means higher head counts at events and banquets, so schools use our individual butter servings for their ease of preparation, eye appeal, and flavor. Many even customize them with their own school logo.
Small luxuries have an enormous influence on guest satisfaction, and this is especially true when you’re serving hundreds of guests at the same time. That’s why so many country clubs serve our Butterball® Butter Premium Balls®, butter Trademarked Roses, or medallions with their bread service and sides.
Hotels everywhere rely on our individual butter servings at events, banquets, buffets, and for room service to enhance their guests’ experience. Hotel kitchens and restaurants enhance menu items with our flavored butters and unique sauces.
Real butter and a more upscale dining experience are very popular with older adults, so many senior centers offer residents individual butter servings of rich, creamy Butterball® Farms butter.
Butterball’s expert staff are ready to work with you to create the perfect filling or topping for your meals.
We have more than six decades of experience in creating unique, craveable flavor solutions to match every kind of dish. Our staff are veterans in the science of flavor and work with some of the biggest brands in the country. If you’ve got an outside-the-box idea for how to add that unique twist to your dish, we’d love to help you make it.
Plant-based and dairy-free options are available with mixtures of fats and oils that substitute for butter. Popular non-dairy options include garlic herb, cilantro lime, and lemon dill.
A sweet, delicious mixture of cinnamon and honey. Great for desserts, hams, and beyond.
The garlic herb option is a fantastic addition to pastas.
Apple butter is tasty on toast, bagels, in pies, and even for dinner.
Add a pop of citrus with a bit of lemon in your butter spread.
Sugar and spice is always nice when it comes to flavoring your food with tasty Butterball® butter spreads.
Try the chili lime for a spice and citrus combo you’ll love.
Other favorites include scampi, steakhouse, Mexican street corn, seafood boil, piccata, and an infinite variety of others.
BRCGS is a globally recognized food safety and quality standard and is recognized under the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a benchmark used by many large foodservice and manufacturing organizations.
An AA rating demonstrates strong operational controls, documented food safety practices, and allows successful customer audits.
What this means for your team:
Butterball Farms pairs food quality standards with the ability to create custom flavors for your brand. From flavored butter to custom flavor solutions, products are developed to perform consistently while aligning with documented specifications.
This provides assurance that your products are being produced, prepared, and handled according to the highest standards.
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Most flavor projects bounce between three or four companies before they get to the consumer. Ours stay in one building, start to finish.
Tell us what you are after. A flavor, a kind of product, a menu problem, anything. We’ll listen and ask the questions that help us get it right.
Our chefs, R&D, and food scientists walk through the brief. Trends, constraints, scale economics, all on the table before a single batch is mixed.
A first sample shows up at your door. You taste it. We change what needs changing. We keep going until it performs the way you imagined.
We scale the approved recipe to real production. Same taste, same performance, batch after batch, with BRC-AA food safety down the line.
We produce, package, and ship straight into your supply chain or your local distributor. One building, one partner, start to finish.
Our Mission
At Butterball® Farms, we believe flavor is more than taste. It’s an experience that enriches lives by creating connections, memories, and shared moments. Just as great flavor enriches every meal, our commitment to customers, employees, and the community enriches the lives of those we serve, extending our impact far beyond the plate.
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Butterball® Farms offers a full lineup of pre-portioned, high-quality sweet cream butter. Whether you’re elevating tabletop presentation or finishing sauces, soups, and roux, our craveable shapes bring beauty and function to every plate.
At Butterball® Farms, we Imagine Butter Differently. As butter manufacturers for more than 60 years, we have been producing artisan-quality, embossed tabletop and flavored butters that create a sophisticated customer experience.
Family-owned and operated, we’ve long been recognized for delivering exceptional quality, value, and service. We will do the same for you — give your customers the best with premium butter from Butterball Farms.
Find individual butter pats near you, or contact us for more information.
Margarine is a butter alternative typically made from vegetable oils (usually palm oil), water, and salt. Margarine has a similar appearance and flavor as butter and also has a similar amount of fat content. Margarine, however, is softer than butter, particularly in cold temperatures, and can even come in a liquid form.
While some margarine products are vegan, many are made with small amounts of dairy. If you’re unsure if a margarine product is considered vegan, it’s always good to check the ingredients on the packaging. Butterball Farms offers its own line of vegan butter to our customers.
Butterball Farms has more than 60 years of experience creating premium, high-quality products for our businesses. Among the many awards we’ve received are:
There’s nothing quite like traditional butter to enhance the flavor of any dish! Butterball Farms offers premium butter that is available in individually wrapped dollops and medallions or in bulk boxes, depending on your needs. Since we are known as a flavored butter company, you can also explore a huge selection of sweet and savory butter combinations to add more flavor to any meal.
Flavored butter spreads are a great way to add convenience to meal kits, offering convenience and custom food flavoring that is savory and unique. Unlike traditional butter which takes time to soften up, butter spreads are soft right away and easily spreadable.
Butterball Farms offers a diverse selection of flavored butter spreads and blends, including plant-based alternatives and sweet or savory options. Popular sweet butter spreads include apple butter and maple cinnamon. Popular savory butter options include garlic herb and chile lime cilantro.
Sauces are another great way to set your meal apart by adding a burst of custom food flavoring. From dessert glazes to pasta sauces, Butterball Farms offers custom sauce creations that make your meals delectable. We offer sauces in tubs, pails, and pre-portioned dollops and medallions.
We also offer the Quik-Creations® Premium Butter Sauce Base, which can be used to create countless types of drizzles or dipping sauces.
Glazes are clear toppings that are ideal for adding flavor to meat dishes or baked goods, whereas gravies are thicker, savory toppings traditionally used on meats and potatoes. Butterball Farms offers both options for your meal kit, allowing you to offer a custom-curated selection of meals – no matter what they require. We also offer marinades that contain an acidic element, such as vinegar or lemon, which can help prepare the flavor of meat before cooking. Try them in tubs or pails or pre-portioned formats such as our medallions or dollops!
Toppings and fillings can be used for cooking and baking to create broad flavors for meals. Flavored dessert butter makes great additions to cakes or breakfast treats, offering customizable flavors such as white chocolate or caramel. Toppings for savory lunches and dinners such as garlic butter or breadcrumb butter can be used on burgers, seafood meals, meat fillings, and more.
Our selection of cream cheese spreads has endless uses within your meal kit! Cream cheeses with flavors like basil or adobo work wonderfully as spreads, whereas sweet cream cheeses and cream cheese frosting pair with cupcakes and desserts.
Aioli is a mayonnaise-like sauce often used as a spread or dipping sauce in many meals, such as sandwiches, dinners, and more. Adding aioli to your meal kit helps you create custom food flavorings that keep your customers hungry for more. Popular flavors include garlic aioli and sun-dried tomato, but we love experimenting to create flavors that are unique to your meal kits. We offer pre-portioned dollops and medallions as well as tubs and cups.
Leadership Rooted in Purpose
At Butterball® Farms, our culture reflects a belief that meaningful work and meaningful lives go hand in hand.
CEO Mark Peters leads with a deep commitment to people, community, and opportunity. His approach has helped shape a workplace grounded in support, shared responsibility, and long-term thinking. That mindset extends across the organization and informs how we invest in our teams and the communities around us.
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Founded in 2003 by our CEO, Mark Peters, The SOURCE was created to support employees navigating challenges in their personal lives that can affect stability at work. By removing barriers and connecting people with the right resources, The SOURCE helps individuals stay employed, support their families, and build stronger futures.
The organization partners with businesses, nonprofits, and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen the workforce and expand opportunity across West Michigan and beyond.
In 2020, Mark published a book on the founding of The SOURCE called The SOURCE: Using the Power of Collaboration to Stabilize Your Workforce and Impact Your Community. In it, Peters shares his personal story and what led him to found the organization, as well as a clear, practical, successful, and repeatable path other enterprises can take to serve their communities.
Butterball Farms believes retention is about growth, not just keeping people in place. That belief is reflected in The Retention Trap: Stop Measuring Turnover, Start Measuring Talent Investment, a book by Mark Peters that shares a people-centered approach to building engaged, stable teams.
Peters draws on more than 20 years of leadership at Butterball Farms to challenge an outdated mindset about workforce engagement and turnover. He offers a fresh, human-centered framework for how companies can view retention not just as keeping people, but as growing them.
The garden is a beautiful space for producing real food for our employees. We have herbs, vegetables, and flowers—all cared for by team members who volunteer their time to keep them growing strong. It’s part of our daily life at Butterball, and one of the many ways we stay rooted in purpose and in people, in the place we work.
Our Mission
Since 1956.
We’re not the turkey company, but our story does start there. Our founder, Leo Peters, made sure to retain the rights to the Butterball name when he sold the turkey patents in the 1960s, eager to translate his innovative mind and high-quality food production experience into the realm of butter and custom flavors.
That mindset continues today with second-generation owner Mark Peters, who has a trendsetting passion for flavor, innovation, and imagination of the culinary arts to produce products that greatly enhance your brand.
Our R&D process is a conversation, not a formula. You bring the challenge, we bring decades of culinary and food science expertise. Together, we’ll:
Every idea is rooted in your vision. We’ll help craft a custom flavor and format that works for your operations, customers, and long-term growth.
We carry more than just butter at Butterball Farms. We also have a wide range of additional products to enhance the flavor of your food.
We manufacture specialty sauces that are fresh, frozen, or refrigerated—never shelf-stable commodities. With creamy blends, globally inspired bold flavors, and everything in between, we specialize in cold-mixed, ready-to-use sauces.
We’re proud to work with:
Our capacity supports national rollouts, LTOs, and small- and large-batch production alike, all with consistent quality from test kitchen to final plating.
As a full-service sauce manufacturer, we offer custom packaging that supports your operations. Some of our packaging options include:
No matter the size you need, our sauce portions are perfect for industrial, meal kit, and restaurant applications because they offer consistency and ease of use.
At this time, we do not offer pouch, glass jar, or glass bottle packaging options.
We’ve long been recognized for delivering exceptional quality, value, and service. For over 60 years, our reputation and our success have been built on three tenets: quality, innovation, and imagination. Butterball® Farms is known for shaping our premium butter into works of art including Premium Butter Balls®, Trademarked Roses, medallions and even custom-embossed shapes for America’s best-known brands. With our partners and customers, we have created hundreds of butter recipes. We welcome the opportunity to help new customers create their desired gourmet butter products. When it comes to imagining butter differently, there’s no one better than Butterball® Farms.
We have taken our excellence in presentation and brought it to flavor – blending culinary art and culinary science to create a range of specialized, exclusive, flavored butters and customized solutions. Today, Butterball Farms also offers sauces, cheeses, gravies, dressings, marinades, and more for national CPG brands, retailers, and restaurant chains.
Butter-based sauces are found in every section of a menu. Whether you’re whipping up a smooth, garlic-infused sauce for a hearty plate of pasta, a rich, buttery hollandaise for a brunch spread, or a silky and spicy drizzle for chicken wings, butter sauces are staples that impart immense flavor into any dish.
Creating hand-crafted sauces, however, can take a decent amount of time and labor to start from scratch—time that isn’t always available in a fast-paced prep kitchen.
Butterball Farms has made it easier to create phenomenal, high-quality sauces for a fraction of the time with Quik-Creations® Premium Butter Sauce Base. This pre-made base made from real butter provides the starting point for whatever flavorful creations you’ll be crafting. You can find Quik-Creations® Premium Butter Sauce Base at a local distributor near you.
If you’re running a restaurant or prepping dishes for a catered event, finding the time to perfect each component can be a tricky balance. When making a butter sauce from scratch, there is a myriad of mistakes that can be made, from using too much or too little butter to letting it burn in the chaos of the kitchen. Quik-Creations Premium Butter Sauce Base starts your sauce-making process off simply, providing a buttery canvas for you to jazz up how you see fit.
Spices, herbs, wines, and other flavoring agents are easily mixed into our butter bases upon heating. No need to worry about if your sauce holds—Quik-Creations Premium Butter Sauce Base is break resistant, offering superior heating and microwaving attributes. With the time you’ll save using our natural sauce base, you can focus on other tasks, ensuring your service is off to a smooth start.
Additionally, our butter base is made with real-creamery butter and non-GMO, all-natural ingredients. Taste the difference!
Butterball Farms turns 70 in 2026. Rather than mark it with a press release, the team is telling 70 stories over the course of the year, one for every year the company has been running. Some are about the plant on Buchanan Avenue and the machines that have been on the floor longer than most of the staff. Some are about people who came in through second- chance hiring and never left. Some are about customers still ordering the same pat they first ordered in 1972. New ones go up every week.
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Butterball is committed to making high-quality, consistent products that will save you time and improve your profit margins. Our premade toppings and fillings will improve efficiency in your kitchens and wow your customers with their flavor.
Our products are fully customizable to meet your unique needs and the needs of the ever-evolving consumer. More and more customers are looking for non-dairy and vegan options for their meals. Butterball is ahead of the curve in creating next-gen plant-based ingredients for our toppings and fillings. We offer plant-based “butter” products that provide your customers with options and great flavor. You can also mix in additional ingredients, such as mustard, ginger, or flaxseed, to add extra flavor to your products.
Our Mission
Since 1956.
Maintaining customer relationships for decades is rare — but for us, it’s a natural, sustainable outcome of our partnership mentality and commitment to innovation. Some customers have trusted us for over 60 years, relying on our collaboration to enrich their products and fuel their growth.
Need a versatile starting point? Quik-Creations® Premium Butter Sauce Base from Butterball® Farms is a chef-trusted mother sauce available from your local distributor—no custom order necessary.
Made from real butter, Quik-Creations lends a fresh, buttery flavor to any dish. It is break-resistant and offers superior heating, microwaving, and holding attributes. Simply add in your own spices and herbs to create effortless culinary creations! Perfect for sauces, soups, gravies, desserts, and more!
Need inspiration? Check out our recipes page and chef videos! This ready-to-use sauce base is available in a 2-lb. pouch.
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First impressions matter. Make one that lasts and tells your guests you thought of every last detail. Consider the welcoming and craveable experience of a decadent bread on the plate with an elegantly shaped butter compared to the untangling of a conventional pat of butter.
“Wow” your customers with beautifully shaped butters. Our Butterball Butter Premium Balls® or Roses and Rosettes are available through your local distributor.
Send MessageEvery flavor the R&D team runs, sorted by application. Compound butters, dollops, sauces, glazes, and marinades, with melt point, salt level, and available formats on each one. It’s the same reference the bench team works from.
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Butter Dollops
We provide a wide range of products, including wholesale and bulk butter dollops.
At Butterball® Farms, we provide a versatile array of delicious bulk butter products to catering companies that are available at your local distributor. If you’ve been seeking beautifully shaped butter that will “wow” diners and elevate their dining experience or buttery sauce bases to cut down on prep time, you’ll find all of that and more at Butterball Farms.
When you consider all the uses of clarified butter, it makes sense to buy in bulk. Buying bulk clarified butter not only saves you money, but it also keeps you well-stocked for any cooking or baking needs for years to come.
Clarified butter does not have to be refrigerated because it undergoes a process that removes all water and leaves behind a highly concentrated butterfat.
Clarified butter can be used in many dishes just like standard butter, and pre-portioned products make it easier to handle. Sauté, pan-fry, finish pasta, or spread on bread — a versatile, savory product for any palate.
Did you know clarified butter is practically a superfood? It contains fatty acids and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) to aid gut health, and it’s a great source of vitamins A, D, and E.
Cook, saute, or bake your favorite dish with clarified butter without fear of burning. Clarified butter has a higher smoke point than butter and won’t burn, making it great for high-heat sauteing.
Custom Butter
Butterball Farms has custom butter capabilities for every situation. Custom restaurant butter is one of our most prevalent and in-demand services. While restaurants are one of our biggest customers, we create custom butter products for a wide variety of other industries. From completely new flavor profiles for craveable dishes to butter logos that best reflect your brand identity, we’ll bring your vision to life.
Fresh-tasting, rich, and utterly craveworthy right down to your brand mark, our custom-embossed butter portions turn a simple bread service into a memorable experience your guests won’t forget.
Butterball® Farms has more than 60 years of experience in crafting innovative and delectable products to put the finishing touches on your dishes. We offer a wide variety of customizable fillings and toppings for any occasion. Our in-house team of experts work with you through every step of the development process, from concept to full-scale production, helping you make your desired flavor a reality.
Bring us a flavor idea — or a blank slate. We help shape it into a clear, workable brief.
Our experts dial in taste, texture, and format through hands-on, iterative R&D.
We scale the winning recipe into consistent, repeatable batches, ready for your kitchens.
At Butterball, we love toppings just as much as butter! Some of our most popular include:
Want the topping on your burger to pack a punch? We can combine any number of flavors so you can create the perfect burger, from barbecue to bleu cheese topping.
Add that extra bit of sweetness with a dessert topping, from bright fruit toppings to indulgent chocolate toppings to sweet maple-bourbon toppings.
Food safety & quality at Butterball Farms is guided by structured processes, trained teams, and regular review. Certifications validate this work, but the foundation is how production operates day in and day out.
Our approach includes:
Add a little table-ready luxury to your guest experience! Our embossed butter pats make every detail feel intentional.
Imagine butter differently with us. Ready to serve, show-stopping, and unbelievably fresh — Butterball® Farms only uses locally sourced, premium sweet cream butter.
Sweet Cream Salted Butter
The Butterball Difference
Years of flavor expertise, quality, and innovation
Prestigious BRC top food-safety rating
Custom flavor combinations created for partners
At Butterball® Farms, we Imagine Butter Differently — producing artisan-quality, embossed tabletop and flavored butters that create a sophisticated customer experience.
We believe strongly that those who support our passion for producing our butters are the key to our success. We know we couldn’t do what we do without our employees, neighbors, and community partnerships.
Our Guiding Principles
Have integrity in all interactions.
Anticipate and address customer needs.
Diligently pursue excellence.
Promote continuous learning and innovation.
Make the workplace an enjoyable and integrated part of life.
Communicate openly and honestly to promote effective teamwork.
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What We Make
Whether you’re looking for butter for the front or back of the house, Butterball® Farms has the answer — from elegant, premium embossed butters for your tabletops, to delicious butter sauces and bases for your next culinary creation, to specialty butters created exclusively for you.
We believe the tiny details make all the difference when you are trying to set the right tone and enhance your guests’ dining experience. We take great pride in producing the perfect butter for any application, so we offer premium butter in a wide range of formats and flavors. And for a dining experience that’s entirely unique, we can work with you to create a custom butter design or flavor profile exclusively for your brand or company.
Whether you’re crafting a signature dish or elevating everyday service, Butterball® Farms brings over six decades of expertise in premium butter and flavor solutions right from West Michigan to your kitchen. Based in Grand Rapids, the company has earned a reputation for quality, innovation, and artistry — producing everything from embossed Premium Butter Balls® and trademarked roses to custom-flavored butters and sauces that inspire chefs and delight diners alike.
For more than 60 years, Butterball® Butter has been found in kitchens and on tables all over the world.
Quik-Creations Premium Butter Sauce Base is the delicious beginning to whatever meal you’re making next.
No matter if it is time for brunch, lunch, or dinner, a savory butter sauce will be the star of any scrumptious spread. Quik-Creations Premium Butter Sauce Base helps you create mouthwatering mixtures, holding whatever craveable flavor combinations your daily menu requires. Upgrade a typical hollandaise sauce with a spicy pop of minced jalapeno or chili powder for a memorable breakfast. Add in fresh ingredients like garlic and lemon zest to brighten up a rich, creamy pasta sauce. Don’t forget about the appetizers and sides, such as making a gravy for potatoes or turkey! Any great protein or carb is always accompanied by a double-dipping-worthy sauce—try mixing fresh ginger and soy into our natural sauce base for an Asian-inspired wing dip, or combine parmesan cheese, parsley, and black pepper to create a wonderfully buttery fry sauce. The options are endlessly delicious.
After a scrumptiously savory meal (or before—we’re not judging!), a sweet treat is always welcome. Quik-Creations Premium Butter Sauce Base heats evenly and is break resistant, making it perfect for adding in a wide variety of sweet ingredients. You can even use it as a base to bake cakes. Create a rich, buttery, cocoa-based sauce for brownies or cakes with chopped chocolate. When added to our natural sauce butter base, honey and cinnamon make an incredible dip for sweet potato fries. To add a layer of flavor to ice-cream-based dishes or a stack of fancy brunch waffles, try mixing in rum, brown sugar, and vanilla to Quik-Creations Premium Butter Sauce Base—fair warning, your guests may be asking for more!
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*The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
* Specifications are based on a case size of 2 × 3 lb bags. Download the Product Specification sheet below to view additional sizes and case specifications.
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*The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
Butterball Farms has custom butter capabilities for every situation. Custom restaurant butter is one of our most prevalent and in-demand services. While restaurants are one of our biggest customers, we create custom butter products for a wide variety of other industries. From completely new flavor profiles for craveable dishes to butter logos that best reflect your brand identity, we’ll bring your vision to life.
Butter makes everything better. Our tubs bring a level of flavor consistency and convenience that keeps your kitchen humming.
Butterball® Farms prides itself on providing the highest quality products while maintaining impeccable customer service. We combine a drive for innovation with a commitment to upholding quality and consistency to create a dynamic experience for our customers that they can pass on to their guests. We co-manufacture, co-package, and private label clarified butter products for some of America’s largest brands. If you’re looking to diversify, innovate or optimize with a trusted, quality partner, we’re interested in speaking with you.
Butterball has top-notch industry certifications, including an AA rating from the BRC Global Standards. The BRC is used by more than 23,000 certified suppliers across 123 countries to ensure quality, safety, and legal compliance. The AA certification is the highest rating available for food manufacture and packaging.
Butterball was also presented with the Innovation Award from Jack in the Box in 2015 and the People First Award at the 2013 McDonald’s Supplier Summit. We were named one of the Nation’s Best and Brightest Companies in 2022.
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First and foremost, custom flavoring allows you to add variety to your flavoring offerings—so your meal kits have something for every buyer’s taste buds and preferences.
Additionally, custom flavors help draw in customers by creating unique appeal. Many people choose meal kits because they seek variety and new flavor combinations. Custom flavoring with sauces, glazes, or flavored butter helps you stand out from the competition and adds a bit of magic to your meal kits. You will be the only destination for the custom flavors you create with Butterball!
What makes Butterball Farms unique is our commitment to innovation. Our staff spends a great deal of time in research and development, ensuring our products are the best they can be. Butterball combines more than 65 years of experience with the latest trends and technology to create the best possible products for our flavors. We experiment to create unique, delectable flavor combinations that amplify the flavors in every dish. Customers purchasing your meal kits can create award-winning flavor combinations right at home.
We believe that enriching lives starts with supporting people. Our approach to human sustainability includes programs and practices that create opportunity, promote growth, and build stronger communities and long-term relationships with customers.
Mark Peters, CEO of Butterball® Farms, co-founded The Source, a non-profit based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The non-profit equips participating employers—including ours—with the best community resources to help support their employees during unforeseen or challenging times. By eliminating systematic barriers to employment, people are given a pathway to both economic and personal well-being. Through The Source, Butterball® Farm team members have access to:
We invest in employee training and development to encourage bold ideas and innovative thinking. Our culture empowers team members to bring creativity to the table.
We celebrate employees who contribute to innovation, quality, and service. Their ideas help us grow, so we make sure they know it.
The mission of The Literacy Center of West Michigan is to “bring about a just and vibrant West Michigan through the power of literacy.” Butterball Farms has been a partner of the organization for many years and continues to support the mission of the organization.
Over the years, Butterball has had the opportunity and privilege to work with a variety of West Michigan charities and community programs, including Wedgwood Christian Services, Schools for Sierra Leone, ICCF, and the Acton Institute.
2014
1 story
1951
Leo Peters, inventor and the founder of Butterball® Farms, Inc., purchases the trademark Butterball from Ada Walker of Wyoming, Ohio on February 16th.
1956
The company, Peters Pak, which later becomes Butterball® Farms, Inc. was founded. It was originally located on Wealthy Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1963
Peters Pak moved to its current location on Buchanan Avenue in Grand Rapids.
Mid 60s
Production of embossed butter roses for foodservice begins.
Late 60s
Leo Peters sells Butterball® IP to Butterball® Turkey, retaining the right to license the name.
1972
McDonald’s purchases embossed butter for their hotcakes. Butterball® Farms, Inc. continues to supply butter pats to McDonald’s.
1972
Reaches first $1 million in sales.
1983
The company name changes from Peters Pak to Butterball® Farms, Inc.
Late 80s
Butterball® Farms, Inc. modernizes the process of freezing butter. First dairy company to use freeze tunnel for product processing in US.
1995
Leo Peters passes away at the age of 86 on July 19. Control of Butterball® Farms, Inc. is passed to Mark Peters, Leo’s son.
1997
Butterball® Farms, Inc. develops Butterball® Butter Premium Balls®.
2003
Butterball® Farms, Inc., begins production of 3D holiday shapes.
2005
Sells first flavored butter portions to Birds Eye Foods for microwave vegetable trays.
2006
Butterball® Farms, Inc. purchases the Stirling Creamery® in Stirling, Ontario, Canada.
2011
Quik-Creations® Butter Sauces are introduced to the foodservice market.
2015
Butterball® Farms, Inc. is recognized as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in West Michigan and in the Nation.
2015
Butterball® Farms, Inc. purchases the Creekside Creamery® name.
2016
Designed and built machine to produce the only wrapped 1oz. medallions in the world for Blue Apron.
2016
Butterball® Farms, Inc. sells Stirling Creamery®, in Stirling, Ontario to Gay Lea Foods.
2016
Butterball® Farms, Inc. celebrates 60 years.
2019
The introduction of automation and implementation of advanced robotic systems in the production plant marking a new era of innovation.
2020
Production of first-ever flow-wrapped butter medallion.
2020
Butterball® Farms, Inc. expanded into new markets, including retail, meal kits, and industrial, with value-added flavor solutions.
2022
The launch of Butterball® Farms, Inc.’s first-ever flavored shaped butter, Honey with Cinnamon Sugar Butter Hive.
2023
Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® distinctive shape was granted “incontestable” under the U.S. Trademark Act, solidifying its unique design as a protected trademark.
2023
Butterball® Farms, Inc. awarded Top 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation.
2024
Butterball® Farms, Inc. expanded its capabilities beyond shaped and flavored butter to include custom flavored sauces, marinades, gravies, cream cheese, and more.
Butterball Farms offers a wide variety of wholesale butter products that will take your catering company to the next level—and what a delicious level it is!
Half of crafting a phenomenal catering experience is providing exquisite flavors, while the other part is creating an appealing presentation. Our premium butter balls are an elegant, tasty addition to any bread plate, a huge step up from individual butter packets that guests awkwardly fiddle with.
Half of crafting a phenomenal catering experience is providing exquisite flavors, while the other part is creating an appealing presentation. Our premium butter balls are an elegant, tasty addition to any bread plate, a huge step up from individual butter packets that guests awkwardly fiddle with.
Half of crafting a phenomenal catering experience is providing exquisite flavors, while the other part is creating an appealing presentation. Our premium butter balls are an elegant, tasty addition to any bread plate, a huge step up from individual butter packets that guests awkwardly fiddle with.
Half of crafting a phenomenal catering experience is providing exquisite flavors, while the other part is creating an appealing presentation. Our premium butter balls are an elegant, tasty addition to any bread plate, a huge step up from individual butter packets that guests awkwardly fiddle with.
Half of crafting a phenomenal catering experience is providing exquisite flavors, while the other part is creating an appealing presentation. Our premium butter balls are an elegant, tasty addition to any bread plate, a huge step up from individual butter packets that guests awkwardly fiddle with.
Pick The Flavor, Then Pick The Format
From single-serve dollops to bulk drums, we pack it the way you need it.
Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® bring instant elegance to the table with their classic shape and smooth, creamy texture. Made with high-quality sweet cream salted butter, these craveable portions add a touch of sophistication that guests remember long after the last bite.
Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® bring instant elegance to the table with their classic shape and smooth, creamy texture. Made with high-quality sweet cream salted butter, these craveable portions add a touch of sophistication that guests remember long after the last bite.
Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® bring instant elegance to the table with their classic shape and smooth, creamy texture. Made with high-quality sweet cream salted butter, these craveable portions add a touch of sophistication that guests remember long after the last bite.
Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® bring instant elegance to the table with their classic shape and smooth, creamy texture. Made with high-quality sweet cream salted butter, these craveable portions add a touch of sophistication that guests remember long after the last bite.
Butterball® Butter Premium Balls® bring instant elegance to the table with their classic shape and smooth, creamy texture. Made with high-quality sweet cream salted butter, these craveable portions add a touch of sophistication that guests remember long after the last bite.
* Specifications are based on a case size of 2 × 3 lb bags. Download the Product Specification sheet below to view additional sizes and case specifications.
| Attribute | Butter | Margarine |
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| Flavor | Made from animal fats, giving it a richer taste and a firmer consistency as a spread. | A high water content creates a more moist texture, and the vegetable-oil base gives it a different taste. |
| Use | A lower smoke point makes butter the better option for baking, where following the recipe exactly leads to the best texture and density. | A higher smoke point makes margarine better in many cases for frying. |
| Nutritional value | Associated with saturated fats. Perfectly healthy in moderation. | Associated with trans fats. Perfectly healthy in moderation. |
| Lifespan | Unopened butter can be expected to last in the refrigerator up to two months. | Unopened margarine typically lasts up to four months when refrigerated. |
A dollop is a pre-portioned morsel of premium butter — plain or compound-flavored — sized for a single serving. Restaurants, hotels, caterers, colleges, CPG brands, and retailers buy them for consistent portioning and instant plate appeal.
We offer dozens of flavors, from Garlic Herb and Garlic Parmesan to Maple Cinnamon and Chile Lime Cilantro. If you don’t see what you need, our team can develop a fully custom flavor profile just for you.
Dollops are made to your specification. We can adjust the portion size, shape, and format (dollop, medallion, or roll) to match your application and packaging.
Dollops can be individually wrapped or packed in bulk boxes, and we package to your specifications. Keep them refrigerated or frozen per the product spec sheet.
More than 60 years of expertise, BRC-AA certified quality, custom flavor development, and personal service — all built to elevate your dishes and protect your brand.
We offer smaller bulk batches than most, so you can try before scaling up. Contact our team to discuss volumes and get started.
You can customize the shape, flavor, and branding of your butter — from Pop-Out® roses, balls, and medallions to custom flavor profiles and embossed logos.
We make custom butter for restaurants, caterers, hotels, consumer packaged goods brands, colleges and universities, and many other industries.
Yes. Our custom butter logo service imprints or pops out your brand’s logo on personalized butter for optimal branding.
We offer a wide range of sweet, savory, spicy, and herby flavors — all Kosher and gluten-free — and can develop a custom flavor to meet your needs.
Packaging options include bulk plastic-lined corrugated boxes as well as pre-portioned formats, tailored to your order.
Yes. Our Pop-Out® options go straight from the freezer to the table for ultimate convenience.
We offer both bulk and pre-portioned options, including dollops, medallions, rolls, and individually portioned pats.
Tell us about the flavor, shape, or logo you have in mind using our request form, and our team will reach out to start the process.
We offer low minimum order sizes that are perfect for trying new flavors — reach out and we’ll help you find the right quantity.
We offer low minimum order sizes that are perfect for trying new flavors — reach out and we’ll help you find the right quantity.
Trusted by the brands and certifying bodies that set the standard for quality and food safety.
Trusted by the brands and certifying bodies that set the standard for quality and food safety.
From food safety to dietary standards, our certifications give national brands the assurance their products are produced, prepared, and handled to the highest standards.
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Butterball has made many delicious flavored butter products for consumer packaged goods over the years. Here is a list of some of our most popular flavors.
Don’t see the flavor you’re after? Our flavor experts love a new challenge — let’s create a custom one together.
We’re proud to offer custom butter products that are both Kosher and gluten-free. These options come in a wide range of flavors you can learn more about in our Flavored Butter Guide. If you don’t see what you’re looking for in our available flavors, we can create a custom butter flavor to meet your needs. Each flavor falls into categories like sweet, savory, spicy, and herby.
Packed with the flavor of a fresh-picked apple, this sweet butter concoction also contains shallots and thyme. It pairs great with chicken, pork, and vegetables.
These delicious frozen butter dollops are flavored with chili pepper, lime, mayonnaise, and feta cheese, making them a great addition to rice, pasta, veggies, and beyond.
While similar to the lemon dill option, this flavored butter pairs lemon zest with parsley flakes. It also pairs best with chicken, fish, pasta, rice, seafood, and vegetables.
The Asian BBQ flavor is reminiscent of your favorite Asian dishes with a punch of sweet brown sugar. It pairs perfectly with fish, potatoes, vegetables, pasta, and seafood.
Ensure your seafood is a hit with tasty butter seasoned with orange, lemon, garlic, ginger, and black pepper.
This flavor option is seasoned with natural parmesan cheese and black peppercorn. Try it with your beef, fish, potatoes, and vegetables.
Take your burgers, sandwiches, pasta, and potatoes to the next level with this pepper jack-infused masterpiece.
Choose the garlic herb for an option pairing garlic, wine, lemon, and shallot. This butter tastes best with beef, chicken, pasta, rice, seafood, and vegetables. It truly is made for any dish.
Salted custom butter goes great with just about everything.
From restaurants to corporations, the bacon shallot flavor is a hit.
Our garlic parmesan flavor is seasoned with natural parmesan cheese, garlic, and flakes of parsley. They are packaged in a plastic-lined corrugated box in bulk.
Our savory bacon flavor will quickly become a must for your beef, pasta, seafood, and vegetable recipes.
These frozen butter dollops will make your vegetables taste better than ever. The brown butter flavor paired with parmesan cheese, sage, and garlic make it a unique pop of flavoring.
Try butter dollops, medallions, or rolls of this lemon dill solution. It tastes great with chicken, fish, pasta, rice, and seafood.
Your beef, potato, and chicken dishes are about to hit new heights. Our steakhouse butter is sure to quickly become a staple.
This option offers a punch of spice with paprika, garlic, cayenne pepper, onion powder, and dijon mustard. Try it out on chicken, beef, and seafood recipes for the best results.
Described as “tangy and robust,” our horseradish and bleu cheese flavor makes the perfect addition to toppings. Accent your burgers and potatoes with a delicious, buttery condiment.
Flavored with soy sauce, ginger, and a pinch of brown sugar, this custom butter goes best with chicken, pasta, rice, and seafood.
Bring consistent, craveworthy flavors that will have your guests’ mouths watering for more every time.
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From cajun crab-inspired butter to sriracha-honey sauce, we make bold, brilliant blends that set your brand apart.
Tubs, portion-controlled cups, rolls, medallions, dollops, individually wrapped servings, drums? We can do it all.
Sweet, spicy, smoky, savory, tangy, delightfully bittersweet, globally inspired— if you can dream it, we can develop it.
We can develop
While our artisans can create countless different butter combinations, here are some of our most popular — spanning spicy, herby, sweet, and savory.
We’re proud to make delicious products while keeping environmental responsibility front and center. We’ve implemented systems and practices that reduce waste, cut emissions, and promote a healthier planet.
Zero waste to landfill
100% of packaging purchases contain recycled content or are recyclable
6,900+ tons of butter sourced from suppliers who participate in the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program
400+ tons of corrugate and plastic packaging recycled
90+ tons of butter oil and solids diverted from municipal treatment facilities
58,000+ pounds of waste butter reclaimed for biofuel
We’re committed to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. The graphs below shows our progress so far.
We’re proud to make delicious products while keeping environmental responsibility front and center. We’ve implemented systems and practices that reduce waste, cut emissions, and promote a healthier planet.
Zero waste to landfill
100% of packaging purchases contain recycled content or are recyclable
6,900+ tons of butter sourced from suppliers who participate in the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program
400+ tons of corrugate and plastic packaging recycled
90+ tons of butter oil and solids diverted from municipal treatment facilities
58,000+ pounds of waste butter reclaimed for biofuel
We’re committed to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030. The graphs below shows our progress so far.
Garlic Herb, Lemon Herb, and Pesto Basil ship through Dot Foods, US Foods, Sysco, Van Eerden, and WebstaurantStore. Everything else on this list is a flavor we already run.
Don’t see it? We build custom flavors to spec — start a custom dollop.
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Getting your brand on butter is easier than you might think. Here’s the four-step process:
Complete a signed application so we can get your custom logo process underway.
Send a high-resolution art file; our designer builds a rendering for your approval. Typically one to two weeks.
We create the die and send you a tray sample of the actual product to review and approve.
Once approved, order through your foodservice distributor. We coordinate directly with your sales rep.
Custom logo butter development typically takes six to ten weeks from signed application to first shipment, so be sure to plan ahead.
From one inventor’s idea to the tables of the world’s best-known kitchens — watch how we imagine butter differently.
Butterball Farms knows the butter industry better than anyone. Our 60+ years in business is a testament to the great quality products and sincere customer service we’re dedicated to offering.
Custom butter is the top solution for personalizing your branding. From unique flavors your customers will recognize to logos that remind them who you are, Butterball makes it all happen.
Custom butter is beneficial in a range of different industries.
Restaurants: Restaurant chefs love Butterball’s custom butter products. Make your restaurant’s menu cohesive with flavorings that guests are certain to remember and crave more of.
Caterers: You’ll be a step ahead of the rest when you serve your customers beautifully shaped butter.
Consumer packaged goods: Wanting to add crave-worthy flavor to your pre-packaged meal? Nothing beats delicious, premium butter that is bursting with flavor. Simply insert our butter dollops into your packaged meals.
Hotels: Hotels tend to opt for custom butter logos from Butterball. This helps enhance their branding to stand out from other hotels.
College universities: Embrace every chance you get to grow school pride. Something as simple as custom butter with the college logo embossed can make a difference in how students and staff feel about their school.
To “Enrich Lives” means creating positive change for our customers, our team members, and the communities we’re part of. It shows up in how we lead, how we listen, how we invest in people, and how we build relationships that last. Impact is not something we talk about — it’s something we practice every day.
Our Guiding Principles
Our Guiding Principles are the foundation of how we work, serve, and lead:
Have integrity in all interactions
Anticipate and address customer needs
Diligently pursue excellence
Promote continuous learning and innovation
Make the workplace an enjoyable and integrated part of life
Communicate openly and honestly to promote effective teamwork
Flavors are an experience you need to create. The Butterball® Farms flavor philosophy blends culinary artistry and food science for solutions that create memorable dining experiences your customers can’t get anywhere else. Every creation begins with high-quality ingredients and a clear vision. Our flavor development process evolves it into a consistent, kitchen-ready product that’s ready for your customers’ taste buds.
Learn About Our Mission
Butterball Farms is proud to be the leading supplier of the best tasting, versatile butter products in the U.S. After 60+ years in the butter industry, we’ve perfected the process of matching high-quality ingredients with unique offerings that not only provide unmatched taste but also improve the food preparation process for restaurants, catering companies, and food manufacturers alike.
Butterball® Farms began over sixty years ago and developed a great reputation as a company. That’s why founder Leo Peters made sure to retain the rights to the Butterball name when he sold the turkey patents. The obvious new venture for a company called Butterball was to create butter. But not just any butter. Premium butter. Specialty butter. Quality butter.
Butterball® Farms has long been known for its Butterball® Butter Premium Balls®, trademarked butter roses, and custom logo butter, but it has also taken a keen interest in creating specialized, exclusive, flavored butter. The foodservice industry and independent chefs come to Butterball® Farms to develop flavor profiles exclusively for them.
We’ve worked on hundreds of butter recipes and are always open to working with customers to create their desired gourmet butter products. We are masters of butter innovation. When you need customized butter, flavored butter, or even one of Butterball® Farms’ already existing flavor profiles, we encourage you to contact us. We want to make your desired flavor a reality. You can view all our products we have created so far.
Think of a soft-serve swirl, but butter. Each one is portioned to the same weight, holds its shape cold, and softens on contact with a hot plate. No cutting, no scaling, no cook standing at a bench with a scoop.
Dollops are one of five formats we produce. Medallions are flat and coin-shaped. Chef rolls slice into rounds. PC cups peel open at the table. Dollops are the one that reads as handmade on the plate.
Every flavor we develop can come out as a dollop — garlic herb, honey cinnamon, bacon jam, lemon dill, whatever the menu calls for. Our R&D team formulates it, we run it, and it ships portioned to your spec.
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Enriching lives extends beyond our walls. Butterball Farms actively supports initiatives focused on workforce stability, education, and opportunity.
When you join our team, you become part of a company that believes giving back strengthens everyone, including the people who work here.
We actively hire individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system so they have the opportunity to pursue meaningful work and the chance to build a new future.
30/2/2 is a grassroots initiative headquartered at the office of the CEO of Butterball Farms, Inc., engaging employers and community partners to expand their talent pool by hiring
those touched by the criminal justice system.
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Butterball Farms Quik-Creations Premium Butter Sauce is incredibly versatile and flavorful. I’ve used it for sautéing, searing, browning, and even baking, and it performs exceptionally well across all applications. It’s ideal for creating butter-based sauces like bearnaise and wine reduction, and it’s perfect for infusing flavors such as lemon, garlic, and rosemary. I believe any chef would love its durability across multiple menu applications.
Chef Darrin Mayweather
Executive Chef
Butter balls are premium, European-style butter shaped into pre-portioned, beautiful balls. 82% butter fat content is higher than most American butters and more typical of European-style. The result is a rich flavor and a luxurious mouth feel.
Made from farm fresh cream with a smooth, delicious and creamy taste, ready to serve and unbelievably fresh, the balls of butter come in quarter-ounce-sized spheres that arrive in three-pound bags and have a shelf life of 180 days. They are best kept frozen when not in use to preserve freshness and help you save on refrigerator space.
The butter we use for our butter balls is not whipped with air, and the shape creates a superior culinary presentation. Butter balls pair delightfully with bread and also serve as a fantastic base for sauces and gravy. Whether used for meal prep or setting the dinner table at a restaurant, butter balls are an innovative industry solution.
Our Premium Balls® start with locally sourced, farm-fresh sweet cream churned to an 82% butterfat content for a richer flavor and smoother mouthfeel than standard American butter. Every ball is portioned and shaped with care, then quickly chilled to lock in that just-churned freshness.
Because the cream comes from trusted regional dairies, quality stays consistent from batch to batch — so the butter you serve today tastes exactly like the butter you’ll serve next season.
For more than 60 years, Butterball® Farms has been a family-owned leader in artisan, embossed, and specialty butter. We partner with restaurants, hotels, and America’s biggest brands to deliver premium tabletop butter at scale.
From custom shapes to private label programs, our team helps you elevate presentation, control portions, and simplify prep — all backed by dependable quality, value, and service.
