For more than 50 years, Banquet® has been making the familiar foods that families love. From Salisbury steak to crispy fried chicken and turkey pot pies to chicken breast tenders, you can always count on Banquet to provide consistently good taste at a great value.
Banquet products include single- and family-serve entrées, prepared chicken (boneless, bone-in and wings), pot pies, fruit pies, breakfast sausage
and Homestyle Bakes.
The Banquet brand began in 1953 with the introduction of frozen meat pies. Banquet frozen dinners first hit store shelves in 1955. The '70s brought several different fried chicken offerings. In 2004, Banquet launched Homestyle Bakes and Dessert Bakes. Most recently, new fruit pies and six new varieties of Banquet frozen entrees were introduced.
- 57 million households buy Banquet frozen foods.
- 100,000 Banquet meals are prepared every hour, 1,800 every minute, 30 every second.
- Many Banquet meals are a good source of protein and/or calcium with a full serving of vegetables.
- Banquet is the clear leader in the single-serve economy segment and the economy pot pie segment.
- Banquet has the highest household penetration and consumer loyalty in the single-serve frozen foods category. Thirty-six million households purchase Banquet single-serve meals.
- Brown 'n Serve is America's No. 1 pre-cooked sausage.
