Published: July 26, 2023

Foodservice operators take pride in consistently serving delicious, quality dishes that their customers will come back for. And chicken dishes are no exception. In fact, they can often be a star on menus...and also cumbersome and messy to prepare properly back-of-house. For those operators scratch-preparing or hand-breading raw chicken, it can create added labor costs and food safety issues, too. But, Tyson Red Label® brand offers a line of fully cooked chicken products that can make serving up consistently delicious chicken dishes far less labor intensive and just as flavorful as the scratch-prepared stuff.

Experience Incredible Flavor and Juiciness

If you think fully cooked chicken can't taste as good as scratch-prepared, think again. Tyson Red Label® brand products have been developed to be deliciously tender, insanely juicy and in our breaded items, seriously crispy.

“You’ll get great taste and quality,” says Alison Geiger, Director of Sales, Strategy & Planning at Tyson Foodservice Culinary. “The product line resonates well with customers because it offers a versatile flavor profile with a familiar, nostalgic eating experience. And it drives an increase yield out of the kitchen and puts dollars back in operators’ pockets.”

Cut Costs and Deliver Greater Consistency

86% of operators expect food costs to increase this year.² Tyson Red Label® brand products help you address this challenge and more. They were developed with rigorous standards for consumer preference/likeability, purchase intent and holding attributes. And because Tyson Foodservice takes pride in providing top-quality, great-tasting and consistently performing products, we give you a great way to make chicken dishes across your menu, while helping you save time and money. 

Fully cooked products require less culinary skill and provide consistent quality, so you can:

• Serve better quality chicken dishes without having to hire qualified staff to handle uncooked chicken
• Speed up prep time and shorten ticket times
• Help eliminate food waste stemming from human error of cooking raw chicken incorrectly
• Have greater food safety compliance back of house
• Benefit from better margin control with less price fluctuation and distributor markups
• Get consistent size, taste and performance

Help Speed Up Prep

and Shorten Ticket Times

85% of consumers noted that speed of visit is important to them when dining at Limited Service Restaurants (82% at Quick Service Restaurants)³. And, with continued labor shortages, fully cooked chicken can help alleviate the time and labor associated with creating high-quality chicken dishes for customers that don’t want to wait for them.

“Fully cooked chicken products have a shorter recon time since you are simply heating rather than cooking the items,” says Kim Glenn, Director of Research and Development at Tyson Foods. “And they provide a more appetizing color and can be consistently prepared by team members without additional culinary training.”

Get Creative with Your Chicken Offerings

With the consistent quality of fully cooked chicken, there’s so many ways you can serve it up to your customers. From salads to sandwiches, wraps, pizza and more, you’ll get incredible versatility with every flavor and form. Here are some recipes to get you started.

Make your wraps really stand out: Tyson Red Label® Fully Cooked Wood Fire Seasoned Chicken Breast Strips make them super tasty like with our Chicken Shawarma recipe.

Make pizza a slice above the rest: Fully cooked chicken works really well with pizza applications because it can just be reheated as the pizza passes through an impingement oven. To start, try using Tyson Red Label® Fully Cooked Breaded Homestyle Chicken Breast Chunk Fritters like on this savory and spicy Buffalo Chicken Pizza.

Add appeal with on-trend sandwiches: Your customers will love this Bánh mì Chicken Sandwich. And you’ll love how easy it is to make with Tyson Red Label® Fully Cooked Breaded Golden Crispy Chicken Tenderloins.