About Us
Our
Story
Kinikin Craft Butchers and Processing has always been committed to a simple concept – we provide meat products and processing with full transparency and complete honesty. As a family-owned business, our first products were elk jerky and snack sticks, popular items for Colorado wild game hunters. With the success of these snacks came the opportunity to connect ranchers, hunters, and meat eaters in Montrose, CO and beyond to custom processing and quality, Colorado-raised meat.
Our
Product
Our dedication to technique, transparency about processing, and support from our community laid the foundation for Kinikin’s growth. We quickly expanded our product list to include smoked meats and custom processing. Before long cattle-ranchers, wild game hunters, and hobby farmers were relying on us for their animal processing.
Our reputation for quality spread among the locals, and to meet the demand, we did what other processors and butchers don’t do – we started raising our own animals to butcher and sell to customers. We made ethics and sustainability our top priorities, providing our customers with visibility of our animals’ whole lifecycle.
As our customer base and demand grew, so did our crew. We hired more butchers, all trained by Kinikin’s renowned meat-carver, Ben “the Butcher” Deltonto. A craft he holds in high regard, Ben keeps the art and tradition of custom processing alive with butcher classes and workshops in Montrose.
Our
Impact
By choosing Kinikin, our customers contribute to a chain that prioritizes animal welfare, minimizes environmental impact and supports the livelihoods of local cattle ranchers, henhouse caretakers, wild game sharpshooters, and of course, butchers.
It’s the commitment to our product and community that gave us the opportunity to move from our first space to a state-of-the-art facility off the San Juan Bypass and Highway 50. Our new home is a USDA inspected and certified meat processing building, with a full-service deli meat counter and wall-to-wall glass window where customers watch our skilled crew cut the meat they’re about to purchase.
We say that “The Meat Makes the Meal,” but it’s our reliance and trust of one another that drives us and makes our community thrive. We’ve proudly served Montrose, CO and nearby mountain towns for over 20 years and look forward to serving you for much, much longer.
Meet the meat makers
Alexis Campbell
Customer Service Manager
Logan Eye
Maintenance Manager
Bill Frantz
General Manager
Wendy Simpson
Retail Manager
Work with Us
BUTCHERS
RETAIL CLERKS
DELI CLERKS
MEAT WRAPPERS
SAUSAGE MAKERS
WAREHOUSE
CLEANERS
MEAT PROCESSORS
Competitive Pay
Medical/RX – Dental – Vision – Disability
401K up to 6% Match
Paid Time Off (Must be Employed for one year)
Sick leave
Employee Assistance
Store Discount
Paid Holidays
