Andrew and Elizabeth McBath don’t have any sort of culinary background. She’s a judge; he works in corporate finance. But the Atlanta-based pair have created a butter company so popular it’s served on select Delta First Class and Delta One flights.
Banner Butter is also available at the ritzy and oft-talked-about Erewhon grocery stores in Southern California and at Whole Foods locations across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. It’s a small business success story for sure, but one that’s taken a lot of work.
Banner Butter Is Born
The McBaths didn’t start out making their own butter. In 2012, they started buying butter from the now-closed Sparkman’s Cream Valley outside of Atlanta to make various compound butters.
“We were taking their butter and adding mixes into it and experimenting with different flavors,” Andrew McBath says of their initial foray into the butter business…