Banquet Foods

Banquet first hit the store shelves in 1955, offering frozen dinners.

With the 2007 sale of former Con-Agra division Swift & Company to JBS USA, the popular frozen breakfast sausage line formerly known as "Swift Premium Brown & Serve" was briefly rebranded under the Armour name, then to "Banquet Brown & Serve" by the end of 2009.

On October 11, 2007, food manufacturer Con-Agra asked stores to pull its Banquet and generic brand chicken and turkey pot pies due to 152 cases of salmonella poisoning in 31 states being linked to the consumption of Con-Agra pot pies, with 20 people hospitalized.

The recalled pot pies included all varieties in 7-oz (200-g) single-serving packages bearing the number P-9 or “Est.

[2] When the pies returned to the market, cooking temperature requirements for serving were made more apparent on the packaging; competitor brands also followed suit.