Labatt Food Service opens $28M meat cooking facility
The new facility can cook up to 4 million pounds of barbacoa, 9.5 million tamales (or 792,000 dozen) and 1.7 million pounds of smoked brisket a year on just one shift.
Labatt Food Service, San Antonio, Texas, opened a new, 65,000-square-foot, $28 million meat cooking facility, producing barbacoa, brisket and tamales for fast food and restaurant customers.
“We’re cooking,” says Fred Silva, general manager of Direct Source Meats, owned and operated by Labatt. “It’s taken less than a year to build the plant, but the idea has been simmering for more than three years. This new plant was built in response to requests from our customers, who want to be able to consistently and safely serve the products they and their customers love, cooked to their own, unique recipe.”