Is it legal to cook things in your restaurant with store bought seasonings? -

Say I start a restaurant and my signature recipe is steak but my cooking method involves marinating it in something like a KC Masterpiece marinade. Is this legal or do you have to have the owners permission of that marinade?

You only need permission if you intend to use the name of the product in your advertising or to increase your sales of the product. If you call it a marinated steak you re fine, but if you say KC Masterpiece marinated steak or steak marinated in KC Masterpiece sauce you may want to make an inquiry about permission to the license holder of the KC brand.

if you can buy it in a store, it is legal to use