“Conquer the kitchen”
Your recipes.Our kitchen.
Welcome to the custom kitchen. Hercules makes your sauces, condiments and prepped components to your recipe, in small runs, and your distributor delivers them. Less prep in store. The same taste in every site.
- 30-minute assessment, free
- Small runs, no big minimums
- Delivered by your distributor
First meeting to production batch for Lucas Quality Meats.
Pizza sauce in one quarter for a six-store pizza group.
Products already in production, in five families.
Peter’s time in Sydney kitchens and food supply. Someone who has stood where you stand.
What’s eating
your kitchen?
Pick the one that sounds like your week. Here is what changes when we make it instead.
The fix
We make it. Your team opens a pack.
Your sauces, dressings and prepped components, made in our Sydney kitchen to your recipe and delivered by your distributor.
Prep hours back on the floorOne bakery had four people on a single prep component for a full day.
Expertise and insight
Made in our kitchen.
Served in yours.
Sauces, aiolis, onions and sweets from the Hercules kitchen, on real plates in real venues.
Partnership, with agility
From your recipe
to every site.
- 01
Kitchen assessment
Thirty minutes, free. We ask what gets made in house and what you wish you never made again.
- 02
Recipe and samples
Your recipe, costed. We develop, sample and adjust until it is right. Lucas went from first meeting to production in 72 hours.
- 03
Scale-up pilot
One or two products in a few of your sites, through the distributor you already use.
- 04
Rollout
Line by line, highest volume first. Every batch coded, labelled and made only for you.
Packed for how
you work.
Pouches, tubs, trays and bags, sized to how fast your line gets through it. Tap a pack to see what ships in it.
Prep cost calculator
What is prep costing you?
Three questions. Count only the prep you would hand to us: sauces, dressings, rubs, jams, crumbs.
40 hours a week across your business.
That is 0 eight-hour shifts a week back on the floor.
Rough figures. Cook rate from the Restaurant Industry Award ($27.97 an hour from 1 July 2026) plus 12% super, casual loading where chosen, penalty rates left out. Assumes we take three quarters of that prep off you.
HERCULES FOOD CO.
KITCHEN DOCKET
Already in
the kitchen.
Nineteen products in five families, ordered through your distributor. Every one started as somebody’s recipe.
Real people.
Really making it.
A lot of what is sold as artisan is developed by one business and bulk-made in someone else’s factory. Ours is not. The people who develop your recipe cook it, pack it and pick up the phone afterwards.
Thirty minutes.
No pitch.
Tell us what is eating your kitchen. We will tell you what we can take off your hands, and roughly what it is worth.
Book a free kitchen assessmentRather just talk? Call Dominic on 0475 167 130.