Commercial Marinades

Marinades are what make juicy steaks, succulent seafood, and crisp vegetables taste like flavor powerhouses. However, creating them from scratch takes time that your kitchen staff could spend working on other things.

Infuse Flavor in Every Dish

Marinades are what make juicy steaks, succulent seafood, and crisp vegetables taste like flavor powerhouses. However, creating them from scratch takes time that your kitchen staff could spend working on other things.
In-house, from scratch
  • Ready-to-use, craveworthy custom flavor
  • Identical results at every location
  • Built to scale across commercial operations
With Butterball® Farms
  • Hours of prep pulled from your staff
  • Inconsistent batch-to-batch results
  • Expensive, unpredictable overhead
Grilled marinated fish steak over an arugula, cherry tomato, and shallot salad on a white plate

Leave Ordinary Behind with Marinades

Butterball® Farms crafts craveworthy custom flavored marinades that transform proteins and produce into the main event.

Whether your vision calls for something bold and smoky, sweet and tangy, or globally inspired, our team creates marinades that taste unforgettable while scaling for all your commercial operations.

Bold, New, Classic: Custom Flavor Profiles we can Create

Every specialty marinade we craft for your kitchen starts with high-quality ingredients that we balance to perfection. These are just some of the custom flavors we can create.
Marinated grilled chicken, steak and lamb

Meat Marinades

  • Zesty citrus blends for chicken
  • Herbaceous and savory steak marinades
  • Warm, Middle Eastern-inspired shawarma-spiced blends for lamb
  • Tangy, herbaceous Latin-inspired fusions for pork roasts
Marinated shrimp, salmon and scallops

Seafood Marinades

  • Garlic-lime marinades for shrimp
  • Miso and mirin-flavored marinades for salmon
  • Hot and buttery Cajun blends for scallops
Marinated grilled vegetables and mushrooms

Vegetable Marinades

  • Steakhouse-style marinades for mushrooms and grilled vegetables
  • Bright balsamic-herb blends
  • Fiery chipotle and maple blends for beans

Designed & Scaled for Commercial Kitchens

Ready to use

Tubs, Barrels, & Pails

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.

Built to fit

Variety of Formats Available

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.

Why Butterball Farms?

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Custom Flavor Development

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.

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Flexibility for Evolving Needs

We can create products that are Clean Label, kosher, halal, vegan, or that accommodate a spectrum of dietary preferences and requirements for your customers.

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Support at Every Step

From concept to full-scale production, we’re with you from the first brainstorm to the final batch—no guesswork, no handoffs.

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Quick Sample Development

Need a new flavor sample yesterday? We offer rapid sample development to bring your ideas to life and get them to market faster.

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Direct R&D Access

Collaborate directly with our R&D department to develop custom marinades and flavors for your kitchen.

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Highest Quality Standards & Certifications

We uphold the highest quality standards, with an awarded BRC AA rating that shows our commitment to quality.

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Partners You Can Trust

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

They’re ready-to-use, flavor-packed blends of seasonings and liquids like oils, butters, and vinegars, made to turn proteins, seafood, and vegetables into the main event. We make them at scale for restaurant chains, food manufacturers, and high-volume foodservice kitchens that want a marinade tasting the same in every batch, without tying up the line making it from scratch.

Yes! Whether you’re after something smoky, bright and citrusy, or globally inspired, our R&D team builds a signature marinade around your concept, then scales it so it tastes identical from the first batch to the thousandth. From zesty citrus chicken to miso salmon to chipotle-maple vegetables, if you can describe it, we can chase it.

We make meat marinades for chicken, steak, lamb, and pork, seafood marinades for shrimp, salmon, and scallops, and vegetable marinades for mushrooms, grilled produce, and beans. Tell us the dish and we’ll build toward it.

In tubs, barrels, or pails for bulk, or in portion-controlled formats when your line needs them measured out. We’ll work with you on the right format and packaging for your application, from a busy kitchen to a manufacturing run.

Yes. We specialize in scaling up ingredient production so you never have to worry about running out of your signature marinade, sauce, or compound butter.

We can. Our team builds marinades to Clean Label, kosher, halal, and vegan standards, and we can work around a range of dietary preferences your customers care about. Share the parameters and we’ll formulate to them.

We’re more than a supplier—we’re your flavor partner. With rapid sample development capabilities, direct R&D collaboration, and an unmatched quality rating, we bring your marinades to life at the highest standard.

Custom marinades start with a direct conversation with our R&D team, and we offer quick sample turnarounds to get a flavor in your hands fast. Minimum orders apply, which makes this a natural fit for chains, manufacturers, and brands ordering at volume.