Customized Menu Meal Solutions and Components

Wornick’s culinary professionals have a collectively keen palate to create complementary Menu Meal solutions. Similarly, our development team possesses the acuity to design and develop profit-enhancing packaging components.

Our 4 oz to 5 lb flexible packaging options, frozen or Shelf Safe™ processing and customized Menu Meal solutions provide a comprehensive set of alternatives for eliminating waste and improving your bottom line.

Processing and Packaging Solutions

  • Frozen – 4 oz to 12 oz pouches
  • Shelf Safe™ – 4 oz to 5 lb pouches, oval platter
  • Ready to Use – heat and serve in 5 minutes or less

Wornick’s proprietary Shelf Safe™ process delivers single serving Menu Meal solutions that are flexible, mobile and consistent, without any worry of food safety issues. All Shelf Safe™ formulations are ready-to-use in minutes by heating via the microwave, combi oven, turbo chef oven or boiling water.

Kids Meals

  • Mac & Cheese
  • Kids Pasta and Kids Pasta Sauces, including but not limited to: marinara, alfredo, parmesan butter sauce

Prevalence of Kids Menus inTop 250 Chains

  • QSR: 75%
  • Casual Dining: 89%
90 percent

 

Nearly 90% of parents cite the existence of a kids’ menu as an important factor in choosing a place to dine out.
91 percent

 

91% of the time kids are consulted on where the family dines out.
43 percent

 

43% of the time the kids’ choice is where the family goes.
top 10

 

Kids’ Menus are on the NRA's Chef Survey as one of the top 10 trends for 2010.

Benefits:

  • Nutritionally balanced and formulated to meet current nutritional and healthy eating trends
  • Opportunity to differentiate kids' menu from your competitors' offerings
  • Ease of preparation
  • Portion controlled, no food waste

Kids are often unpredictable and a bit finicky, so you never know what will satisfy them. Wornick can team with you to develop an array of Kids’ Menu offerings that are tasty and indulgent, yet nutritionally balanced to meet the needs of growing bodies. The single serve packaging format takes the guesswork out of how many orders to prepare. Instead, in just 3-4 minutes, you have a variety of items ready to serve, eliminating material and labor waste.

Side Solutions™

Side Solutions™ are Ready-to-Use customized menu meal components that complement and add value to your menu while reducing back-of-house labor and waste.

  • Risotto
  • Flavored Rice
  • Casserole Potatoes

Side Solutions are an extraordinarily efficient way to enhance your current menu with customized side offerings. The Wornick culinary team works diligently to create a top-shelf product that is appealing in appearance, ingredients, consistency, flavor, color, taste and texture. In short, Side Solutions provide a delicious, satisfying side item. Currently, Traditional American cuisine is the most popular category, while Asian, Italian and Hispanic preparations are also in great demand.

Additional benefits to Foodservice providers are the convenient packaging options and ease of preparation. In fact, Side Solutions reduce labor by up to 50% and waste by up to 20%, two great ways to increase profitability.

Ready to Use Sauces & Glazes

Consumers are always interested in the next best thing. In Foodservice, this can come in the form of a complementary sauce or glaze. Unfortunately, creating and producing sauces and glazes can be time and capital intensive. Wornick Foods, however, can design, develop and deliver palate pleasing sauces and glazes, while reducing back-of-house labor, inconsistency and waste.

Wornick can provide custom sauces and glazes from scratch for virtually any Foodservice operation. We’re particularly adept at creating classic and contemporary scratch preparations. Our creations are available in single serve portions or 5 lb bulk packages. They’re also ready-to-use at a moment’s notice, again reducing waste and prep.

Below are some of the popular sauces and glazes available.

Classical

  • Béarnaise
  • Volute
  • Demi Glace
  • Burgundy
  • Tomato
  • Béchamel

Ethnic

  • American
  • Hispanic
  • Asian
  • French

Glazes

  • Balsamic
  • Fruit
  • Chipotle
  • Ginger Soy

Hot Breakfast Cereals

Q: What is the #1 eating occasion in the U.S.?

A: Home Breakfast

Q: What is the #1 beverage occasion in the U.S.?

A: Early morning

People are on the move more and more these days and find themselves time starved. With this evolution come new possibilities and opportunities for convenient, non-traditional breakfast offerings. To help meet these growing “on the go” demands, Wornick Foods can provide Foodservice operators with single-serve, pre-cooked oatmeal.

Precooked Steel Cut Oatmeal – Ready-to-heat and eat on the go:

  • 4 oz to 8 oz single serve portions
  • Pouch or bowl
  • Sweetened
  • Unsweetened
  • Flavored
  • Fruit added
  • Frozen or Shelf Safe™

We can also customize a ready-to-heat and eat steel cut oatmeal that takes 5 minutes or less.