Picture this: You’re checking out a new quick-service restaurant. Your order is piping hot, and it smells amazing. You take a bite. It’s good; wait, no. It’s great. What’s that flavor? It’s smoky, savory, and unlike anything you’ve tasted at a quick-service restaurant (QSR). That unforgettable flavor experience is all thanks to a uniquely crafted sauce.
We love stories like this one. Our team of bona fide sauce obsessives knows that a tasty sauce can take a dish from good to great without breaking the bottom line – which is why our culinary-driven sauce manufacturing experts work with our clients every step of the way, from the early stages of ideation all the way to production, packaging, and shipping. If you’ve ever wanted to peek behind the curtain, read on to find out how we craft custom sauces for your brand.
Formulating the Perfect Custom Sauces for your Brand
Wondering how to make sauces for foodservice and QSR applications? We’ll say this: It all starts with a good brainstorming session. When we partner with brands to make custom sauces, our initial ideation process typically involves three parts:
Insights:
Before we even begin the flavor conversation, we empower our B2B partners with consumer insights and food trends to help them understand the competitive foodservice landscape. We pull from years of research and industry experience to make suggestions, kicking off the brainstorming process with solid data in our back pocket.
Ideation:
Once we’ve reviewed the data, the real fun begins. Our culinary experts are available for ideation sessions to help brands craft the perfect sauce, dip, dressing, drizzle, or marinade – ideation sessions allow us to get nerdy over flavor profiles and unexpected ingredient pairings.
Ongoing collaboration:
We collaborate with our B2B partners until we unlock the exact function and flavor they’re looking for. For some partners, that means multiple ideation sessions and plenty of tinkering in our test kitchen.
Sauce Manufacturing: Where Delicious Meets Efficient
Once we’ve nailed the perfect flavor profile and formulation, we’re ready to move on to the manufacturing phase. For us, that means delivering a high-quality product on time and on trend. Our in-house food production facility boasts the highest quality equipment in the industry, allowing our team to exceed product expectations.
How? To start, our blending tanks, kettle cookers, packaging lines, and processing rooms are always being optimized to maximize efficiencies, ensuring unbeatable quality in the sauces we craft for your brand.
We’re also committing to exceeding regulatory requirements, which means that our partners can rest easy during the manufacturing process. Regulatory requirements also encompass nutritional data in line with the diverse preferences of U.S. and Canadian markets. Whether you’re catering to a vegan, halal, kosher, or gluten-free audience, our regulatory and food certification experts can help you cover all the bases.
Packaging and Shipping for Operational Efficiency
Our foodservice clients know that a great sauce goes way beyond ideation and formulation. Proper packaging is also key, whether that means portion cups for dips, large-format drums for back-of-house efficiency, or shelf-stable pouches for ready meals and meal kits. This is especially important for brands looking to enter the private label sauce game. Proper packaging – whether it’s large, small, or boldly branded – can set your product apart on a shelf, creating a whole new wave of customer loyalty.
As you can see, crafting custom sauces involves a lot more than taste-testing (although we do plenty of that, too!). Whether we’re assisting QSRs in crafting private label sauces or working with foodservice partners to deliver unique dips, dressings, drizzles, or marinades, we’re committed to providing exceptional products for every kind of foodie.
By partnering with a team of sauce manufacturing experts like us, you can get ahead of the competition and take your menu from ordinary to extraordinary.