Higher standards.
Wider reach.

An independent, USDA- and SQF-certified production company bringing pitmaster-led Kansas City barbecue to retail brands and foodservice operators nationwide.

Our Origin

Inspired by real, Kansas City barbecue.

Kansas City Hickory Provisions was built by a family that has spent nearly seventy years doing barbecue the hard way.

Four generations of the Fiorella-Dorman family have run Jack Stack Barbecue, an award-winning, nationally recognized Kansas City institution built on hickory smoke and no-shortcut fundamentals.

Kansas City Hickory Provisions carries that discipline onto the production floor. Same hickory. Same slow time. Same standards. Only now — engineered for retail brands and foodservice operators who want to bring authentic Kansas City barbecue to their customers at commercial scale.

The Opportunity

The best barbecue in America shouldn't live in one zip code.

The Problem

Kansas City barbecue is a category all its own — a specific flavor profile built on hickory smoke, slow cook-time, and generations of technique. But outside the Midwest, that approach to flavor and technique is hard to find at scale.

The Impact

The result is a category-sized gap. Consumers, operators, and retail brands never get to experience the authentic, craveable protein that Kansas City built its reputation on — at least, not at anything close to national scale.

The Solution

That's why we built Kansas City Hickory Provisions.

Leaning into what we know, we built an independent, USDA- and SQF-certified production company designed to bring authentic Kansas City barbecue to retail and foodservice at scale, without ever losing the pitmaster-led intention behind it: smoked meats, exacting standards, and decades of experience producing for a brand that lives and dies by the quality of every plate that leaves the kitchen.

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THERE'S MAGIC TO KANSAS CITY COOKING; REAL HICKORY HARDWOOD AND TIME-HONORED TRADITIONS PASSED DOWN OVER GENERATIONS. WE BUILT THIS FACILITY TO RECREATE THAT MAGIC AT SCALE, WITHOUT CUTTING A SINGLE CORNER THE CRAFT DEMANDS.
Keaton Dorman
President, KCHP Family Ownership Group

What Comes Next

Purpose-built for the brands and operators who want to raise the bar.

KCHP is built as a production partner, not a co-packer. Our commitment is to the retail brands and foodservice operators who want authentic, pitmaster-led Kansas City barbecue in their portfolio — and want a manufacturing partner that operates to CPG-grade standards while never losing the craft.

Boxes of Jack Stack beef burnt ends stacked on a club-store shelf

For Retail Brands

Private-label and licensed smoked-meat SKUs with the flavor authenticity, food-safety discipline, and packaging fluency that national programs demand — from refrigerated tray to roll stock to shelf-stable retail formats.

Gloved worker sealing trays of smoked meat on the packaging line

For Foodservice Operators

Fully-cooked, ready-to-eat smoked proteins engineered to simplify back-of-house execution while holding a flavor standard that separates a good menu from a memorable one — for QSR, restaurant chains, c-store programs, and broadline distribution.

Whether you're launching a new SKU, scaling an existing program, or developing a proprietary recipe from the ground up — KCHP is built to be the partner that gets it right.

Higher standards.Wider reach.