If
you’re running 20, 50, or 200 locations, you already know that consistency isn’t just a quality goal. It’s a business requirement. When a guest orders your signature fried chicken in Boston, they expect the same golden crust and flavor they had in New York last month. Oil plays a bigger role in that equation than most operators realize.
The challenge is that a single base oil rarely does everything a multi-unit operation needs. Pure soybean oil can be cost-effective but falls short on fry life. High-oleic canola may perform beautifully in your highest-volume fryer, yet feel like overkill at a lower-traffic site. That’s where custom blending earns its keep.
A well-designed oil blend lets you dial in exactly the performance profile your operation demands: smoke point, flavor neutrality, oxidative stability, and fry life. Once those are fine-tuned, you can lock the spec in across every location. When procurement teams in every market order the same product, and your training program points to a single oil spec on a laminated sheet, you eliminate a meaningful variable from your quality equation. Your culinary team stops troubleshooting inconsistent fry results and starts focusing on what actually moves the needle.
Oil isn’t part of what we do, it’s everything we do. For 125 years, four generations of the Basile family have been blending oils for foodservice operators, and our blends catalog reflects that depth:
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Canola and EVOO blends across a wide range of ratios
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High-oleic sunflower blends built for extended fry life
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Soybean-based blends formulated for stability at scale
Every batch is verified by our in-house lab, so the spec you sign off on in your test kitchen is the spec that arrives at every back door, whether in Boston, New York, Phoenix, or anywhere else you operate.
Whether you’re looking for a blend that already matches your spec or you want to build something tailored to your fryer setup and menu, Catania’s custom formulation and private-label programs were built for chains like yours. Your brand goes on the bottle. Our expertise goes inside. That’s the real value of working with a partner that blends at scale: a product engineered to your needs, with the supply reliability to back it up across your entire footprint.
If you’re evaluating your oil program or looking to tighten up spec consistency, the Catania foodservice team is a good first call. Tell us about your operation and what you’re working with, and we’ll take it from there.
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