Your Clover chicken sandwich and Saus carnitas were spun from a dough at Tender in Somerville

Dining out? The meat you’re eating – pork, roast beef or chicken – may have been whipped up in an industrial cotton candy machine at Somerville’s Tender Food, part of a revolution in vegetarian foods seeded at Harvard.

Saus serves Tender in its pork carnitas sandwich and The Somerville Dip, a roast beef sandwich with au jus. “Customers are very into” the fake meat, and cooks love working with it, especially since it “chars like real meat,” said Tanya Kropinicki Walker, co-owner of Saus. The eatery, which is an all-vegetarian at Bow Market, hopes to relaunch its Tender crispy chicken sandwich in November.

Clover Food Lab plans to relaunch its version of a Tender crispy chicken sandwich Oct. 22 – customers relish it, said Chris Anderson, the head of food at the Cambridge-born chain, just as “customer attachment to bowls have grown” since Tender products were added.

Tender’s face chicken cooks up as savory and crispy, so “customers are comfortable trying something new,”Anderson said.

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