Kansas City Steak Company

Infobox_Company
company_name = Kansas City Steak Company
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = "The steaks that made Kansas City famous"
foundation = 1932
location = Kansas City, Kansas, USA
key_people = Ed Scavuzzo, President
industry = Food
products = Steak, Poultry, Seafood
num_employees =
revenue = | homepage = [http://www.kansascitysteaks.com/wikipedia www.kansascitysteaks.com]

Kansas City Steak Company is a family-run business based in Kansas City, Kansas, that manufactures and markets premium beef (including USDA Prime beef), poultry, seafood, and other foods for foodservice and home delivery.

History

Kansas City Steak Company was founded by Giovanni Scavuzzo during the Great Depression. He opened the S&S Meat Company butcher shop in 1932 with sons Santo, Edward and Carlo. The retail store operated for nearly 50 years.

In 1980, the family decided to focus entirely on foodservice, delivering meat to hotels and restaurants around the Kansas City, Missouri area.

When current president Ed Scavuzzo, great-grandson of the company's founder, joined the business in 1984, he focused on a new venture: a mail order catalog. Capitalizing on Kansas City’s reputation for premier steaks, he called the mail order portion of the business Kansas City Steak Co.

The catalog business grew during the '80s but only accounted for 8-10 percent of the company’s revenues. In 1995, Kansas City Steak Company signed a deal with televised home shopping channel QVC, becoming the channel's number one selling food product in 2003. cite news
url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2005/07/11/story4.html
title=KC Steak Co. takes cut at big time: Sizzling sales have company primed to tackle Omaha counterpart
publisher = [Kansas City Business Journal]
date = 2005-07-08
accessdate = 2008-03-31]

Today, managed by Ed Scavuzzo (the founder's great-grandson), Kansas City Steak Company distributes meat products to restaurants across the United States and delivers packaged gourmet products nationwide.

Products

Kansas City Steak Company uses Western Kansas corn-fed beef to create and sell Kansas City strips, top sirloin, T-bones, Porterhouse and ribeye steaks, beef roasts and steakburgers. The company's offerings include their Private Stock line of USDA Prime beef and steaks certified by the American Heart Association as heart-healthy choices.cite news
url=http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4973
title=What Certification Means
publisher = [American Heart Association]
date =
accessdate = 2008-03-31] A selection of poultry, pork, seafood and desserts complete the company's product offerings.

References

External links

* [http://www.kansascitysteaks.com Official website]
* [http://www.steak-enthusiast.com/ www.steak-enthusiast.com]
* [http://www.qvc.com/cgen/render.aspx?qp=class%7C5316 QVC's Kansas City Steak Co. site]