About our Publix Philly Cheesesteak Dip
It’s everything you love about the original sandwich but reimagined in dip form. Our Publix Philly Cheesesteak Dip can be served with chips as a delicious appetizer, or you can get creative by making it a pizza topping.
We make this new savory snack at our Lakeland, Florida, deli kitchen using
- top round roast beef
- sharp cheddar cheese
- provolone cheese
- fried onions
- red and green bell peppers
- cream cheese
- cheddar cheese sauce
- garlic and
- au jus seasoning.
How we make it
The 1st step in making our dip is to prepare the vegetables, which arrive fresh to the plant. They’re diced, blanched and stored chilled until everything is ready to mix together.
While associates prepare the vegetables, another team dices the top round roast beef, fresh-cooked in our smokehouse. They also open the cheeses and other ingredients, which are stored until mixing.
Once everything is prepared, some ingredients (like vegetables) go to our scale operator to be weighed and measured according to the recipe. The cheese sauce is sent to a bowl cutter to be mixed with the seasonings.
Ingredients are then sent to the filler room where they are each transferred into the filler machine.
The mixture is then dispensed into 16-ounce containers. As the dip-filled containers travel down the conveyor belt, they’re sealed with plastic and topped with a lid.
After this process, each container goes across a weight checker to verify the correct dip volume. The container is labeled and marked with a use-by date. At the same time, a high-speed camera looks at every container to ensure it’s packaged correctly. After the final checks for quality and food safety, the containers of dip are then boxed up, palletized and shipped to our distribution centers, where the dip is sent to stores.
About the deli kitchen
When the Lakeland, Florida, deli kitchen opened in 1984, it was about half its current size and only produced a handful of our current offerings. Today, over 425 associates work at the 135,000-square-foot facility. A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector is on-site every time we’re making meat products. The deli kitchen is where many Publix-brand deli meats in the service case are processed and packaged, along with a variety of our Publix Smokehouse meats like ribs, sausage and chicken, as well as our Publix salads and dips.
