The Fresh Chicken Company is a wholesale chicken processor in Glendene, Auckland, and it has supplied restaurants, cafes and caterers from the same site since 1990. Its plant is MPI approved and HACCP certified, and the business is 100% New Zealand owned. Processing, cold storage and its own refrigerated trucks are all at the Akatea Road address, so birds are cut and packed in one place before they go out. The site says more than a thousand Auckland kitchens order from it.
The business offers 38 lines across seven ranges. Whole birds come in sizes 12 to 24, boneless or butterflied, conventional or free-range. Breast is its most-ordered line, and there are skin-on or skinless thigh fillets, leg meat, portions, specialty bones, livers, hearts, gizzards and necks, and frozen whole birds. Wings, nibbles and drums come by the 10 kg carton for high-turnover menus. Runs start at six in the morning, six days a week, and most are done by early afternoon. Delivery covers Central, West, North Shore, South and East Auckland, Monday to Saturday, and pickup from Glendene has no minimum.