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Labatt Food Service opens fully stainless-steel meat cooking facility

State-of-the-art plant features high-tech machinery, ability to pump out large volumes of product and room for growth.

The new plant is equipped with a tempering unit, smokehouse and steamhouse, as well as stainless-steel equipment, x-ray detection, LED lighting and ample room for growth. Photo: Labatt Food Service.
The new plant is equipped with a tempering unit, smokehouse and steamhouse, as well as stainless-steel equipment, x-ray detection, LED lighting and ample room for growth. Photo: Labatt Food Service.

Labatt Food Service, San Antonio, Texas, opened a new, 65,000-sq.-ft., $28 million meat cooking facility that produces barbacoa, brisket and tamales for fast food and restaurant customers.
But what separates this state-of-the-art facility from other meat cooking plants is its high-tech machinery, ability to pump out large volumes of product and its room for growth.

“We built this plant to service the growing Texas market. We felt that the industry lacked a state-of-the-art facility that specialized in our regional palette,” says Fred Silva, general manager for Direct Source Meats, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Labatt Food Service. “San Antonio is a great location for such a plant because of its central Texas location, and we believe that the city’s culture definitely affects our food.”

The fully stainless-steel plant can cook up to 4 million pounds of authentic cheek meat barbacoa, 9.5 million tamales, 4 million pounds of taco meat and 1.7 million pounds of mesquite-smoked brisket a year on just one shift.

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