Butter is a category most distributors treat as a line item. One print, two counts, whatever the dairy co-op quotes this month.
That’s fine until an operator asks for a rose on the bread plate, a logo pressed into the pat, or a garlic herb dollop portioned to their recipe. Then the commodity print can’t answer, and neither can the catalog.
Butterball™ Farms has made that answer in Grand Rapids since 1956. The plant was first to run logo embossed and shaped butter at commercial scale, and it’s still the largest specialty butter manufacturer in the country. Products already move through Sysco, US Foods, Gordon Food Service, Dot Foods and Van Eerden.
Family owned since
1956
Chains, hotels and country clubs don’t switch distributors over a case of commodity print. They do switch when someone can put their logo in the butter. A specialty line gives your reps a reason to walk into an account they’ve already lost on price.
Portioned butter is a consumable tied to covers, not a seasonal promo. Once a kitchen builds a plate around a shape, the reorder is automatic and the spec rarely changes. That’s steady turns on a SKU nobody has to re-sell every quarter.
Butterball™ Farms holds a BRC-AA food safety rating, with kosher options available. When your QA group or a chain customer audits the supplier list, the documentation is ready to send instead of chased.
Fourteen salted shapes run as stocked product, so there’s no formulation step and no wait on a development cycle. You order by the case, your operators order off your catalog, and the cold chain works the way the rest of your frozen dairy does.
When an operator wants a flavor or a shape that doesn’t exist yet, the R&D group works the brief with you in the room. You keep the relationship, the plant does the formulation and the run.
The category the plant is known for. Premium Balls®, Roses, Rosettes, Medallions, Domes, Maple Leaf, Fleur-de-Lis and more, in salted and unsalted. Front of house product that makes a bread plate look considered.
Pre-portioned compound butter in 0.5 oz and 1 oz. Garlic herb, lemon herb and pesto basil stock, or a flavor built for one account. Back of house labor comes off the line because nobody’s mixing and scooping during service.
Ready-to-use flavored butter in resealable, kitchen-tough containers for operations that portion on site. Sizes to suit the account, from a single restaurant to campus dining.
A butter sauce base that holds together through sauté, sear and bake instead of splitting. Operators infuse it with whatever their menu needs, so one SKU in your catalog covers a lot of different kitchens.
Quik-Creations® butter sauce base holds together through saute, sear, and bake without breaking. Add fresh herbs, wine, or roasted garlic and your team has a finished sauce in minutes, the same in every property.
High-quality sauces ready in no time, straight from the base.
Durable packaging built for a busy catering kitchen.
All Natural & Premium bases for drizzles, dips, and more.
Tell the team the accounts you're chasing and the formats they ask for. You'll get pricing, spec sheets and a sample kit to take into the next call.