You're Invited to a Culinary Innovation Session

Since 1972, Intercity Packers Meat & Seafood® has served as a leading Canadian producer of high-quality, value-added, and customized meat and seafood products. We take pride and care in sourcing premium meat and seafood, then carefully preparing them to each customer’s specifications.

Our Services

We produce, source and consult on meat and seafood products from superior brands, then custom-cut, package and deliver according to each customer’s unique specifications.

Our Approach

Our meat and seafood experts partner with your establishment and leverage our chef-driven mindset to provide customized solutions, going beyond what you would imagine a supplier could offer.

Our Credibility

With a reputation built on decades of experience as a leading, federally-inspected supplier in the Canadian food service industry, you can have peace of mind offering our products at your establishment.

Culinary Innovation Sessions

Intercity Packers’ reputation is built on going beyond expectations of a traditional protein supplier. One of the ways Intercity Packers exceeds your expectations is by hosting Culinary Innovation Sessions. Our consulting services are offered to our entire valued customer base, including operators in the restaurant, food service, grocery and healthcare industries.

You have the opportunity to take full advantage of our team’s expertise to add value to your operation, potentially in ways you may not have considered before. Whether you’re looking to source new products, fine tune your menu offering, host a training session or tour our production facility, the Culinary Innovation Session will be tailored to your operation’s needs to optimize our time together.

Menu Consulting Services

Whether you are starting a new restaurant, expanding your retail space or developing a new menu for the season, we welcome our customers to take part in a Culinary Innovation Session to source and test the best meat & seafood products for your menu’s needs. Hosted by Chef Danny Markowicz, our team will offer their expertise to host a tasting of tailored meat and seafood products that satisfy your target clientele, price point, and menu application.

• Ideate meat and seafood offering from white board to menu board
• Maximise profitability through menu engineering and food cost analysis
• Stay ahead of trends with seasonal menus or LTOs
• Learn how to do more with less product through inventory cross-utilization
• Source a more sustainable or local source to support your brand’s initiatives 

Get To Know Chef Danny Markowicz

Meet Chef Danny Markowicz, the Research & Development Chef for Intercity Packers Meat & Seafood. With his extensive background in the hospitality industry from independent fine dining, to casual restaurant chains, to Canada’s top hotels, Chef Danny understands the challenges that an operator endures in the modern food service industry. 

Chef Danny will leverages his chef-driven mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to create new avenues for profit for our customers.

Meat and Seafood Production Tour

Witness a highly skilled and efficient team produce burgers, steaks, seafood fillets and more value-added proteins in real time. From receiving to shipping, experience how thousands of pounds of these premium products are produced and delivered across Canada everyday.

Unlocking industry “secrets” during this tour, combined with our team’s expertise in the food service industry, creates a learning opportunity that can be applied to your operation. As both protein cutter and consultant, we can provide knowledge, training and standardised procedures to produce at maximum yield and efficiency in the back-of-house setting of your establishment.

• Experience a behind-the-scenes view of how meat and seafood products are made
• Support for team’s continuous learning and development to become product experts
• Produce and host SOP’s for meat fabrication and seafood processing on a smaller scale

How to Schedule a Culinary Innovation Sessions

Our consultative approach to working with food service, hospitality and healthcare establishments starts with understanding their goals, and results in solutions that meet their needs.

1. Reach out to your designated Sales Representative from Intercity Packers to collectively decide on what your objectives for the session will be. A typical session can last between 1 hour to a full day event, depending on what you are hoping to achieve.
2. Determine which members of your team will partake in the session. Please make note of any food allergies or dietary restrictions.
3. Once you have a date and in mind, please reach out to your Sales Representative to confirm your session booking.

Let’s partner to maximize profitability, improve the consistency and expand the meat and seafood offering at your operation.