YORK, Pa. -- Rutter’s continues to invest in local menu items and ingredients with its Chipped Sweet Bologna Gravy.
The dish features chipped pieces of Seltzer’s Sweet Lebanon Bologna and pepper-laced cream gravy. Customers can now choose between the bologna gravy and Rutter’s sausage gravy to top off a biscuit, toast, waffle or mashed potatoes.
“Central Pennsylvania is famous for chipped beef gravy, long considered a local staple,” said Ryan Krebs, Rutter’s director of foodservice. “It’s a cream-based gravy with chipped dried beef served over toast or mashed potatoes. Lebanon bologna is another Central Pennsylvania staple. We experimented one morning, and it turns out that bologna gravy has an amazing taste profile. So, we teamed up with local food manufacturer, Winter Gardens, to create a recipe using Seltzer’s famous Lebanon bologna that everyone can enjoy.”
This summer, Rutter’s added fresh and local produce in its grab-and-go and its foodservice offerings. The company began labeling homegrown menu items as local in displays. After appointing a fresh and local category manager at the beginning of this year, Rutter’s also added local pork belly and Pepperoni “Roni” Rolls.
All full-service Rutter’s locations began serving Chipped Sweet Bologna Gravy starting Oct. 24.
York, Pa.-based Rutter's is No. 96 in CSP's 2018 Top 202 ranking of c-stores by number of company-owned retail outlets. The chain won the CSP/Intouch Insight Mystery Shop study for a second straight year.
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