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Bulk Butter Tubs

Bulk Butter That Works as Hard as Your Kitchen Does

Butterball Farms’ bulk butter tubs put rich, craveable flavored butter right where you need it: in generous, resealable containers that are ready to pull from at a moment’s notice.

When you’re finishing a sauce, loading up a prep station, or building a custom flavor from scratch, our bulk butter tubs move with the pace of a serious kitchen. It’s all the deliciousness of butter with none of the fussiness.

Why Butterball Farms Bulk Butter?

Butter makes everything better. Our tubs bring a level of flavor consistency and convenience that keeps your kitchen humming. 

  • Ready-to-use flavored butter: Our tubs come pre-mixed with house favorites or custom formulations designed to your exact specs. Your team grabs, scoops, and gets back to cooking.
  • Custom flavor creation: Want something that’s unmistakably yours? Butterball’s culinary team works directly with regional and national restaurant groups to develop proprietary compound butter flavors that no one else is using.
  • Resealable, kitchen-tough containers: Our tubs seal tight between uses to keep the butter fresh and your refrigerator organized. They’re ready for a busy back-of-house environment.
  • BRC-AA certified quality: Butterball Farms earned BRC-AA certification, one of the food industry’s most stringent quality and safety benchmarks.
    Sizes that fit your operation: Bulk butter tubs are available in multiple sizes. Talk to us about what makes sense for your volume and storage setup.

Who Orders Bulk Butter Tubs?

Bulk butter tubs are most at home in kitchens where butter is a daily player. That includes:

  • Restaurants (regional and national chains): If your kitchen goes through butter fast and needs a consistently craveworthy flavor, our tubs are your answer.
  • Hotels: From banquet prep to room dining, hotel culinary teams count on bulk butter tubs to keep flavored butter stocked and accessible at scale.
  • Universities and campus dining: High-volume dining operations love the efficiency of a flavored compound butter that doesn’t require any additional prep.
  • Senior living communities: Bulk butter tubs bring buttery richness to every meal without putting extra demands on kitchen staff.
  • Co-manufacturing and food manufacturing: Food manufacturers who partner with Butterball Farms get bulk butter tubs formulated to their exact recipe specifications, with the consistency to back it up at scale.

Flavored Compound Butter in Every Tub

Butterball Farms’ bulk butter tubs are home to our flavored compound butters, a.k.a. butter mixed with herbs, spices, aromatics, or specialty ingredients to give your dishes that extra something that keeps customers coming back for more.

Our existing flavor lineup covers crowd favorites like garlic herb, but the real magic happens when you tell us what you’re missing. Custom flavors are available for qualifying customers, and our culinary and R&D team loves the challenge of getting the flavor profile exactly right.

Browse our flavored butter lineup or start a conversation about going custom.

Quality That Shows Up in Every Scoop

Butterball Farms has been crafting butter products for over 60 years. In 2022, that commitment earned us BRC-AA certification, a globally recognized standard for food safety and quality. The butter in that tub has been held to a serious standard. That’s the promise behind every bulk butter tub we ship.

Let's Talk Butter

Whether you're looking to stock a reliable compound butter for your kitchen's daily grind or want to build something entirely custom, we'd love to hear what you're working with. Reach out to the Butterball Farms team, and let's figure out the right butter for your operation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are bulk butter tubs, and who are they for?

Exactly what a busy kitchen wants: rich, flavored butter in generous, resealable tubs you can scoop straight from at a moment’s notice. They suit restaurant chains, hotels, and high-volume foodservice kitchens finishing sauces, loading a prep station, or building a signature dish, plus food manufacturers working butter into a line. Grab, scoop, and get back to cooking.

What is compound butter?

Compound butter is butter blended with additional ingredients, like herbs, garlic, citrus, or spices, to create a flavored butter ready to use in recipes or served at the table. At Butterball Farms, all our flavored butter products are compound butters, and yes, they are just as delicious as they sound.

What flavors do tubs come in, and can you make a custom one?

Tubs come pre-mixed with house favorites like garlic herb, or formulated to your exact spec. Custom is where it gets fun: our culinary team works with regional and national restaurant groups and brands to build a craveable flavor that’s yours alone, and that same custom work runs across our dollops, spreads, and sauces too.

What sizes do tubs come in?

Tubs are made for volume, so they’re sized for prep lines and high-throughput kitchens rather than the tabletop. Our garlic herb tub, for instance, comes in a one-pound size. Tell us your application and we’ll match the format to how your kitchen moves.

How do tubs ship and store?

Our tubs ship frozen in resealable containers built to be opened, used, and closed again without fuss, so a station can pull what it needs and keep moving. Store them cold to hold flavor and freshness until service calls.

What sizes do bulk butter tubs come in?

Butter tubs are available in multiple sizes depending on your volume and operational setup. Contact us and we’ll help you choose the right fit.

Are the tubs recyclable?

Our plastic butter tubs can be washed and recycled once emptied. Every bit counts.

Is Butterball Farms® a bulk butter supplier?

Butterball Farms manufactures and sells flavored compound butter products, including bulk butter tubs, directly to qualifying foodservice and food manufacturing customers. We’re not a commodity butter distributor; we’re a flavor-forward butter manufacturer with serious quality standards to match.

What makes Butterball Farms® tubs worth it?

Flavor that lands the same every time, made with butter and produced in a facility holding a BRC-AA rating. For a kitchen, that means less scratch prep, steady results across every shift, and a flavor you can stand behind. That consistency is the value our customers keep coming back for.

How do we order tubs, and is there a minimum?

Stocked options like the garlic herb tub are available through your distributor, including DOT Foods, and custom formulations start with a direct conversation with our team. Minimum orders apply, which is why tubs are a strong fit for chains and higher-volume kitchens.