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Portable Kitchen
PO Box 2240
Little Rock, AR 72203
Telephone:
866-354-7575
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Website:
www.pkgrills.com
Year Started:
1998
# American Employees:
2
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In the early 1950’s, the man known as the "Barbeque King" of Texas acted on his dream of making the perfect barbeque pit. Mr. Hilton
Meigs, a Beaumont businessman, contractor and inventor, designed and manufactured the first Portable Kitchen® cast aluminum grill in
1952.
The immediate popularity of the grill inspired the Meigs family to move to larger operations in Tyler, Texas a year later. Using Tyler
as their base of operations, Mr. Meigs and his son, Douglas, loaded as many grills as possible in their 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air (removing
the back seat to accommodate more grills) and traveled all across the Lone Star State to pitch their cooker. Sales soon spread to
retailers across the country and to several countries overseas. Operations were eventually moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.
Unfortunately, the advent of stamped metal charcoal grills and trendy gas grills in the 1980’s led to the early retirement of the Mr.
Meigs’ heavy-duty cast aluminum cooker. Tired of rusted out, cheap charcoal grills and convinced that a propane flame could never
produce the flavor of charcoal-fed hickory smoke, Paul and Sarah James retrieved one of Mr. Meigs’ Portable Kitchen® cookers at a garage
sale.
The rest is history. Wholeheartedly believing that the Portable Kitchen® cast aluminum cooker is still the perfect charcoal grill and
smoker, the James family has set out to reintroduce it to the market. Rekindle an old flame! |
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Thoughts on America:
Portable Ktichens is a family company that believes in products made here in the USA. |
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