Since 1956 Northwest Meat Company has been passionate about providing excellent cuts of high-quality meat. For three generations, our family traditions of values and standards have never wavered. We never compromise quality and this starts with our relationships with our sourcing partners.
We look for meat farms and strong partners who share our same vision and ideals about using sustainable agricultural practices, humanely raising animals, and following safety standards. We expect excellence in all aspects of the process. By collaborating with our sourcing partners, we are able to anticipate and bring forth innovative products and ideas to our market. Family and community drive success and enable Northwest Meats to have consistent product sourcing with exceptional quality. We stand behind every cut of beef, veal, lamb, and pork we sell.
Greater Omaha has been known for the finest quality beef products, service, and delivery in the industry since 1920. Their mission is to produce premium beef products with uncompromising food safety. Their central Midwest location means their Angus and Hereford cattle are sourced within 250 miles of their Omaha, Nebraska production facility.
Greater Omaha shares our desire for knowing their partners. They consider their ranchers and livestock operators as neighbors and know them personally, some for generations. All USDA quality, Greater Omaha uses a digital grading process and software algorithm to remove any subjectivity involved in the visual grading process, ensuring consistent quality in every cut.
Located in Omaha, home to one of the nation’s largest cattle livestock markets, Nebraska Beef sets a standard of excellence in customer service and quality beef. Their English breed cattle are born, raised, and processed within a 250-mile radius of their Omaha-based plant, ensuring complete traceability and exceptional freshness.
Nebraska Beef partners with local Midwest farmers and cattle feeders who share a commitment to superior quality. All cattle are raised on a corn-fed diet with a minimum of 80% corn sources for up to 140 days, producing beef renowned for its exceptional flavor, tenderness, and consistent marbling. Nebraska’s unique position within the corn-belt region creates optimal conditions for delivering some of the highest quality beef in the world.
The company has developed and implemented a systematic approach to the humane handling of all livestock, meeting the requirements of both the NAMI guidelines and the Humane Slaughter Act. All beef is USDA inspected, with carcass characteristics evaluated by trained AMS Grading Personnel. Northwest Meat Company is proud to partner with Nebraska Beef, whose dedication to quality, local sourcing, and humane practices aligns perfectly with our own commitment to excellence.
Originating from the Piedmont region in Northwest Italy, Certified Piedmontese cattle are a distinctive white-coat, double-muscle breed with a unique genetic advantage. Unlike domestic cattle, Piedmontese cattle have an inactive Myostatin gene, the gene responsible for heavy connective tissue. This results in shorter muscle fibers, which translates directly to superior tenderness in every cut.
Certified Piedmontese cattle are raised without the use of antibiotics or growth promotants, following high ethical growing standards and low-stress handling techniques. Their diet contains no corn. Instead, they are raised on hay, barley, and pea protein from field-fresh peas, qualifying the beef to be marketed as Grass Fed. All cattle are grown, raised, and processed in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The result is beef that is lower in saturated fats, higher in omega-3s, leaner, and packs more protein than conventionally raised beef, all while delivering tenderness equal to or better than domestic breeds. Piedmontese offers a lighter eating experience with deep beef flavor. Partnering with Certified Piedmontese as their official distributor in the Chicago area, Northwest Meat Company is proud to offer these lean, healthy, and delicious beef options that are guaranteed to impress your guests.
Located in Pleasant Hope, Missouri, Best Beef supplies premium Midwestern USA Black Angus beef to foodservice and retail customers across both domestic and international markets. The program is built on Upper Midwest sourcing, with Midwest-raised, Midwest Black Angus bred
cattle, giving Northwest Meat Company a regionally consistent Black Angus option for Chicagoland kitchens.
All cattle are raised on a 100 percent US grain-based diet and finished on Midwest corn for a
minimum of 180 days. This extended finishing window is paired with a state-of-the-art
processing facility and high animal handling practices throughout production. Northwest Meat
Company is proud to partner with Best Beef for a Black Angus program that brings together
Midwest sourcing, careful finishing, and dependable processing standards.
Chairman’s Reserve pork is a truly superior product that is unparalleled in terms of tenderness, flavor, and juiciness. Chairman’s Reserve Meats use strict grading criteria to ensure that they always deliver the very best premium pork cuts possible.
All of Chairman’s Reserve Pork is hand-chosen and inspected to ensure that the marbling, firmness, size, and texture are always consistent. Their products are all fully compliant with USDA standards for natural products so you can be sure that you are getting juicy, flavorful pork with nothing else added. To further ensure consistency, they employ a color standards code that is strictly adhered to in order to reduce variation. Committed to such high standards while constantly evolving their methods, there is no higher-quality pork available than Chairman’s Reserve.
Indiana Kitchen is located in the heart of the Midwest allowing them to work closely with their farm partners to provide the freshest, most flavorful pork products available. They are passionate about working with providers who are dedicated to improving the pork industry.
Relationships are key to the success of Indiana Kitchen. Their family of farmers is committed to humanely raising healthy hogs free of antibiotic residues or other hazardous substances. All of their hog farmers are Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Certified. Their meatpackers and processors are committed to product safety and quality assurance. Their pork-exclusive expertise allows for custom-product specifications.
Midwest family farm sourcing results in a complete line of the freshest pork products on the market, including a variety of processed and specialty meat products, like their flavorful ham, bacon, sausage, deli meats, and more.
Seaboard Foods understands that the proper care of animals is not only the humane thing to do, but also paramount to producing quality pork. They also recognize how important it is to continuously evaluate how to do things better. From their pig farmers to their quality assurance team, they constantly analyze their processes to invest in improvements and ensure they deliver superior pork products.
Rigorous third-party, independent audits provide an added level of safety. With one of the newest, large-scale pork processing plants in the industry, Seaboard employs the latest technology and USDA Process Verified control points to produce safe, delicious, and nutritious pork.
Their superior pork products begin in their breeding barns where they own their boars and sows. Genetics experts select the optimum hereditary traits of both their male and female pigs. Ongoing, in-depth research over generations means Seaboard Foods maintains strict genetic control of their herd. An emphasis on science allows them to produce pork with a consistent appearance, texture, and flavor with uniform marbling. Seaboard Foods is committed to always providing exceptional pork with consistent attributes.
We are proud to partner with Joyce Farms, providing both the Naked Chicken and Poulet Rouge for our valued customers. While these two birds are some of the best on this side of the world, Joyce Farms is experienced in a variety of exceptional protein options.
Founded in 1962 by farmer Alvin Joyce, Joyce Farms started out with the intention of being a family-run business. Over 60 years later, and now with a third generation of Joyces at the farm, our remarkable sourcing partner is still family-owned to this day. With a selection of products for just about every taste, including their delectable Heritage line of premium meats, Joyce Farms has been supplying the best chefs in the area with the finest poultry possible.
Koch Foods is one of the top poultry processors in the U.S. Their focus is on providing the highest quality products and unmatched service throughout the growing, manufacturing, and distribution processes. Their state-of-the-art equipment allows them to deliver chicken with greater efficiency and react quickly to the needs of customers and changes in the marketplace. Their customized solutions make them stand out as an industry leader.
We are in line with their commitment to raising small birds, resulting in a superior and tender product. Koch Foods does not compromise on quality, from the ethical treatment of their animals to the conscientious use of resources. No steroids or hormones are ever used, and only carefully screened quality ingredients from select vendors are included in their poultry feed.
Safety is incorporated in everything they do. All of their facilities are USDA inspected and operate under Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure (SSOP) plans that meet all regulations under 9 CFR 417. In their desire to protect the environment, they established the Koch Foods Sustainability in Action Program to help guide sustainability practices throughout many critical components of their day-to-day business. Since 1985, Koch Foods has continuously led the innovation curve for the poultry industry by investing millions of dollars every year to upgrade their production facilities.
Maple Leaf Farms is a fourth-generation company founded in 1958 as a small duck operation in Northern Indiana dedicated to producing the highest standard of quality products. With more than 150 partners who grow and care for ducks on their own farms, they share our belief that family is an integral part of our culture.
Extremely proud of their heritage, Maple Leaf Farms has become the leader in the duck industry and is well known for their superior duck products. Maple Leaf Farms was the first duck company in North America to implement a comprehensive duck well-being program that includes science-based duck care for all stages of production, a training program for staff and growers, and an audit system that helps them continually identify areas for improvement.
Their commitment to sustainability includes programs and systems that are ethically grounded, scientifically verified, and economically viable. They also own and operate their own feed mill to ensure the highest quality nutrition for their ducks. Their ducks eat an all-natural diet of corn, wheat, and soybeans purchased from local farmers. All of the family farmers they partner with use these natural feeds. Maple Leaf Farms does not include antibiotics in their duck feeds.
Their ducks are raised in quiet, spacious barns where they have room to roam about and have access to fresh water and feed. Commitments to family, community, and quality have been the foundation of Maple Leaf Farms’ success for over 60 years. We are proud that they have never lost sight of their values.
Elysian Fields was established in 1989 when Keith Martin founded a 200-acre farm in Greene County, Pennsylvania. In 2006, Martin partnered with renowned Chef Thomas Keller to develop Pure Bred Lamb and their patented Safe Alternative method. Their revolutionary approach assigns each animal a unique identification number, tracking everything from origin to feeding practices. This system ensures complete traceability and exceptional quality control.
The lambs are raised on family-owned feeder farms following strict protocols: no antibiotics in feed, an all-vegetarian diet, and regular purity testing. With centralized control over the entire process from farm to plate, Elysian Fields delivers consistently premium, pasture-raised lamb with superior flavor and texture.
Their commitment to holistic, ethical farming practices yields a product that stands above the rest in quality and consistency. Northwest Meat Company is proud to be the Chicago-area distributor for this exceptional Purebred Lamb.
Marcho Farms and Provimi Foods began in 1969 and have grown to become the largest veal and lamb manufacturer in the country. An integrated and forward-thinking organization, Marcho Farms takes pride in its commitment to quality and ethical behavior.
Lambs and calves are humanely raised in caring, low-stress environments on peaceful rural family farms. The finest quality grain-fed lambs are born and raised free-range on American farms, graded USDA Choice, Yield Grade 3 or better. Holstein calves are raised by certified growers and brought up in clean, spacious communal housing, able to move about and interact.
All of their farms offer constant supervision, specialized feeding programs, and around-the-clock veterinary oversight, ensuring superior herd health, as well as happy, healthy animals, and the most delicious meats possible. From selection, housing, and feeding to transportation, processing, and delivery, Marcho Farms assures that their end product is unrivaled in quality and flavor. They simply would not have it any other way.
Carando Classic Italian was created nearly a century ago along the cobblestone streets of Torino, Italy, where founder Peter Carando learned the Italian tradition of sausage making as an apprentice at his local butcher shop. With authentic recipes in hand, he came to America and began his dream of handcrafting the very finest Italian meats.
The company remains true to those recipes, as well as the old-world craftsmanship, creating one of the world’s finest purveyors of Italian deli meats. Discover truly authentic Italian specialties like capicola, hard salami, genoa salami, pancetta, pepperoni, prosciutto and more.
In addition, Carando’s premium dinner hams are among the finest in the world. From hickory-smoked to honey-cured to brown sugar-glazed, it is easy to taste their dedication to old-world quality in every slice. One bite is all it takes to discover the authentic Italian difference of Carando.
Volpi Foods opened their doors in 1902. Having learned the ancient European art of dry curing from his elders, John Volpi envisioned his company as a family business with respect for craftsmanship and an eye on his customers and the future. Now his great niece, Lorenza Pasetti, continues to refine her great-uncle’s craft while adhering to the techniques he brought with him to America more than a century ago.
Volpi Foods relies exclusively on local Midwest suppliers and still dries its meats by adjusting the temperature and humidity of natural airflows. In addition, their meats are still prepared in the same facility opened in 1902, as well as two other locations. All of their farmers are within two hundred miles of their facilities, which means their meat is the freshest anywhere.
Craftsmen ensure that all of their meats are prepared to perfection, and in the most natural way possible, individually, and by hand. There are no shortcuts. They let time cure their meats naturally, whether it takes four weeks, four months, or four years. Nitrates are never used, and all of their meats are free of hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides.
Volpi Foods is passionate about producing delicious, natural, exceptionally high-quality foods using original, authentic recipes. Their standards are unparalleled, resulting in the tastiest, safest, and most wholesome meat imaginable.
Established in 1973 in North Central Iowa, Webster City Custom Meats has built over five decades of expertise in crafting premium smoked pork products. From their 70,500 square foot facility in Webster City, Iowa, they specialize in slow-cured, expertly smoked hams, premium bacon, fresh sausage products, and smoked pork loins, all crafted using time-tested methods and traditional techniques.
Quality and care are at the heart of everything Webster City Custom Meats does. Each ham is prepared using methods that lock in juiciness and create the perfect balance of savory and sweet. Their premium bacon starts with high-quality pork bellies, expertly cured and naturally smoked with certified hickory and apple wood chips to achieve the perfect balance of savory richness and mouthwatering aroma. Products are always delivered fresh, never pre-processed or previously frozen.
Webster City Custom Meats shares Midwestern values of tradition, integrity, service, quality, and locality. Their commitment to precise specifications and dependable yield ensures consistency that professional kitchens can rely on. Whether it is their distinguished selection of smoked hams, their variety of bacon flavors, or their quality breakfast sausages, every product is crafted with precision and the kind of care that makes every bite memorable. Northwest Meat Company is pleased to offer these exceptional smoked pork products to our customers.
