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Eugene L. Kohn founded City Foods, Inc. in 1939, after working for his uncle
in a small beef slaughtering operation during the depression. He began by
delivering 100 lb. barrels of shortening in a used truck he bought for $300.
After serving in World War II in China, Eugene began servicing restaurants
out of his truck with a limited line of meat items. His brother Rudy soon joined
him. In the mid 1950's they bought an old fashioned butcher shop with
sawdust on the floors, and turned it into a small distribution and
manufacturing factory.
Working 12 to 14 hours a day, the brothers cut loins, strips and chucks by
themselves. They also distributed other meats to service a growing list of
restaurants and other meat wholesalers. In 1965 City Foods built a new
processing plant/headquarters at 4230 South Racine Avenue in Chicago,
where we continue to grow today. We brought in forequarters and
hindquarters on rails, and boned them out with a small crew of 8 - 10 workers.
City Foods became federally inspected in 1968 and decided to concentrate
on our forte, boning out large quantities of navels.
City Foods was building steady volume when in 1980 Eugene's son Kenneth
Kohn joined the company. Soon after, we expanded operations buying the
building next door, and constructing an addition joining them. This allowed us
to more than double our meat output.
In 1985, Nathan Levine, a former owner of a New York corned beef and
pastrami business, joined City Foods. He launched us into the business of
manufacturing Bea's Best raw corned beef. Sales took off with the help of
Kenneth Kohn, now sales manager.
In 1990, aware of the demand for quality pre-cooked deli items, City Foods
expanded for the fifth time, adding a corning and cooking processing and
packing room. This addition allowed us to naturally hickory smoke beef
bacon and briskets, and cook roast beef, corned beef, pastrami, prime rib,
and our new Turkey Pastrami, as well as slice and package these favorites to
customer specifications.
2006 was the end of an era, when our founder Eugene Kohn passed away.
Kenneth Kohn now carries on the City Foods tradition of quality and
innovation in the capacity of company President. Under his leadership, City
Foods now produces about 500,00 pounds a week of fresh, top quality
products which are sold at retailers and wholesalers all over the country as
well as in the Caribbean, Bahamas, Central and South America and the
Middle East.
in a small beef slaughtering operation during the depression. He began by
delivering 100 lb. barrels of shortening in a used truck he bought for $300.
After serving in World War II in China, Eugene began servicing restaurants
out of his truck with a limited line of meat items. His brother Rudy soon joined
him. In the mid 1950's they bought an old fashioned butcher shop with
sawdust on the floors, and turned it into a small distribution and
manufacturing factory.
Working 12 to 14 hours a day, the brothers cut loins, strips and chucks by
themselves. They also distributed other meats to service a growing list of
restaurants and other meat wholesalers. In 1965 City Foods built a new
processing plant/headquarters at 4230 South Racine Avenue in Chicago,
where we continue to grow today. We brought in forequarters and
hindquarters on rails, and boned them out with a small crew of 8 - 10 workers.
City Foods became federally inspected in 1968 and decided to concentrate
on our forte, boning out large quantities of navels.
City Foods was building steady volume when in 1980 Eugene's son Kenneth
Kohn joined the company. Soon after, we expanded operations buying the
building next door, and constructing an addition joining them. This allowed us
to more than double our meat output.
In 1985, Nathan Levine, a former owner of a New York corned beef and
pastrami business, joined City Foods. He launched us into the business of
manufacturing Bea's Best raw corned beef. Sales took off with the help of
Kenneth Kohn, now sales manager.
In 1990, aware of the demand for quality pre-cooked deli items, City Foods
expanded for the fifth time, adding a corning and cooking processing and
packing room. This addition allowed us to naturally hickory smoke beef
bacon and briskets, and cook roast beef, corned beef, pastrami, prime rib,
and our new Turkey Pastrami, as well as slice and package these favorites to
customer specifications.
2006 was the end of an era, when our founder Eugene Kohn passed away.
Kenneth Kohn now carries on the City Foods tradition of quality and
innovation in the capacity of company President. Under his leadership, City
Foods now produces about 500,00 pounds a week of fresh, top quality
products which are sold at retailers and wholesalers all over the country as
well as in the Caribbean, Bahamas, Central and South America and the
Middle East.