Hot To Go

More and more consumers are looking for delicious, well made food served Hot-to-Go. Ruiz Foods makes it easy and profitable for you to add customer-pleasing Mexican food to your Hot-to-Go line-up. We make El Monterey, America's best-selling brand of frozen Mexican food, so you know the quality and flavor profiles are the best you'll find. Our Hot-to-Go products will help you increase sales and profits while requiring minimal labor at the point of sale.

America loves Mexican food!

No longer just an occasional ethnic culinary treat, Mexican food has exploded in popularity throughout the United States. Look around, and you notice that venues from convenience stores to baseball parks are catering to America's seemingly insatiable appetite for Mexican food. It's a trend that only appears to be growing, as evidenced by the rapidly increasing number of limited- and full-serve Mexican restaurants that open their doors every day. Even America's biggest burger chains have Mexican items on the menu and have invested heavily in Mexican-themed franchise concepts. C-stores, dining venues, and vending operations that offer their customers delicious, well-made Mexican food will be well positioned to take advantage of the Mexican food phenomenon. And we make it easy, because we make the frozen Mexican food items America prefers and deliver them ready to sell frozen, refrigerated or to heat and serve to your customers.

The power of America's best-selling brand:

El Monterey is America's best-selling brand of frozen Mexican food. Your customers will appreciate that you serve the brand they already know, enjoy and prefer. And we help you communicate that powerful sales message with in-store El Monterey merchandising support.

The variety you and your customers want:

At Ruiz Foods, we are constantly creating and testing new products and new flavors of existing products to keep our line-up fresh and exciting. We offer a vast range of Hot-to-Go items, from our authentic Tamales to our innovative Tornados … from our big and bold Spicy Red Hot Beef & Bean XXL Chimichanga to our small and sweet Caramel Cheesecake Bites. We'll make your customers' mornings delicious and lunchtimes savory with AM and PM flavors of Tornados, Supreme Burritos and Butcher Wrapped Burritos. Your customers may enjoy our hand-held products as hand-held items on the go, or load them with toppings on a carry-out tray and dig in with a fork. We know the flavors and product formats American Hot-to-Go consumers want. And we give you plenty of options to choose the ones that are right for your customers.

Solutions for every operation:

Our Hot-to-Go products are developed to be delicious and safe heated from multiple heating methods, including microwaves, ovens, fryers, steamers and roller grills. So most will work beautifully with standard heating equipment you already use every day. Products may be heated and served immediately or held in standard hot cases, service deli warming pans or roller grills (Tornados). We have exciting products for virtually any Hot-to-Go application.

Low labor costs means higher profitability:

To make every product profitable for you, we make sure each is ready to simply heat and serve. Of course, you can also offer additional condiments if you choose. But our products are satisfying and complete as stand-alone items. We provide serving bags inside the cases of many bulk Hot-to-Go products. And we provide easy-to-follow heating instructions. Our individually wrapped products are also well suited to sell in the ready-meals section of your refrigerator. Customers looking for a quick snack, breakfast, lunch or dinner can heat them in your onsite microwave or take them to their homes or offices to heat them there. All this translates to low labor costs and higher profitability for you.

National Distribution:

Regional managers and nationwide distribution centers allow Ruiz Foods to quickly supply product anywhere in the continental United States.