Led by award-winning chefs Andrew Zimmern and
Gavin Kaysen, the joint venture will revolutionize professional and
collegiate athletics through nutritious meals built for
performance, endurance, wellness, and recovery
In the first collaboration of its kind, the award-winning,
professional chef team behind KZ Provisioning, Andrew
Zimmern and Gavin Kaysen, are joining forces with Aramark Sports
& Entertainment (Aramark), the award-winning food and
beverage partner at premium stadiums, arenas, and entertainment
destinations in North America, to expand KZ Provisioning’s unique
culinary approach to fueling athletes, sports teams, and
organizations across the country. KZ Provisioning, founded
by Zimmern and Kaysen in 2017, focuses on delivering genuine
hospitality, customized menus, and performance-driven meals to
professional athletes, their coaches, and their families. The
partnership combines KZ Provisioning’s proven culinary expertise
with Aramark’s extensive experience in providing innovative
foodservice and hospitality experiences.
KZ Provisioning has silently built its reputation for
eight years by offering performance-focused meal programs that are
tailored to meet the specific nutritional needs of elite athletes.
Their philosophy for cooking is breaking the mold and transforming
the way professional sports teams think about nutrition planning
for their athletes, coaches, and team families. Now, with the
support of Aramark, KZ Provisioning is poised to expand its reach,
bringing its high-caliber culinary offerings to new professional
and collegiate level athletes and teams across the country.
"At KZ Provisioning we offer best-in-class hospitality services
to all our partner clients. We also believe in player happiness as
a quantifiable metric that affects performance,” said Zimmern,
Co-Founder of KZ Provisioning. “Our emphasis on the
extraordinary impact our culinary offerings have on players across
all our teams is our daily work. So when you combine all those
areas of expertise with Aramark's leadership and their ability to
amplify our work via this new partnership, we have an offering that
teams across the nation will find invaluable.”
Since its inception, the Minnesota Lynx, Minnesota Timberwolves,
and Minnesota Wild, have relied on KZ Provisioning to anticipate
the needs of team athletes and deliver personalized meals designed
to maximize energy, enhance recovery, and offer moments of comfort
during rigorous training and competition schedules. With Aramark’s
support, leveraging its extensive network and existing
infrastructure, the partnership aims to expand its reach, providing
bespoke culinary services across a wider range of leagues and
sports, ensuring that more athletes benefit from KZ Provisioning's
expertly-crafted, nutritionally-appropriate cuisine.
"Andrew and I started KZ Provisioning because we recognized that
professional athletes weren’t being fully supported in terms of the
foods that were being made available to them,” said Kaysen,
Co-Founder of KZ Provisioning. “Athletes are expected to
perform at the highest levels, which requires nutritional support
and strategic attention to detail. Our mission is to provide
athletes with the foods that will fuel their performance, support
their health, and ultimately create a path to performance
excellence.”
The partnership with Aramark accelerates KZ Provisioning’s
ability to reach more athletes with their customized,
restaurant-quality mealtime options. The team of chefs led by
Kaysen and Zimmern are on-site from pre-season to the playoffs
creating pre-game energy meals, post-training recovery dishes, and
snacks, made with craveable ingredients and bioavailable nutrients
that cater to athletes’ diverse nutritional requirements.
“The partnership with KZ Provisioning is a natural extension of
our nationally renowned work with sports owners, operators,
athletes and stadiums across the country,” said Alison Birdwell,
President & CEO of Aramark Sports & Entertainment. “The
opportunity for us to have such dedicated and reputable partners as
Andrew and Gavin is special. KZ Provisioning uniquely combines the
culinary excellence and high attention to detail of two world
renowned chefs, with a thoughtfulness of the athlete experience
that is unlike anything we’ve seen before.”
For more information about KZ Provisioning’s partnership with
Aramark and their approach to revolutionizing athlete nutrition,
visit KZProvisioning.com.
About KZ Provisioning
Launched in 2017 by James Beard award winning Chefs Gavin Kaysen
and Andrew Zimmern, KZ Provisioning is a hospitality centered,
performance-driven culinary company transforming the way
professional sports teams think about nutrition planning for their
athletes, coaches, and team families. Led by Kaysen and Zimmern,
the KZ Provisioning team of chefs are on-site from pre-season to
the playoffs creating delicious snacks and meals designed for
wellness, endurance, recovery, and injury prevention. Working in
collaboration with the athletes, nutritionists, and coaches,
bespoke menu options are made with craveable ingredients and packed
with bioavailable nutrients that fuel athletes from rest days to
game days. Exceptional hospitality means the coaches and team
families also have access to customized, restaurant-quality
mealtime options.
Since its inception, KZ Provisioning continues to be the trusted
culinary partner for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Lynx,
and Minnesota Wild. Now, in the first collaboration of its kind,
the award-winning professional chef team behind KZ Provisioning is
partnering up with global catering company Aramark to bring genuine
hospitality, customized menus, and performance-driven meal plans to
professional and collegiate sports teams across the U.S. For more
information, visit KZProvisioning.com and connect on LinkedIn and
Instagram.
About Aramark Sports &
Entertainment
Aramark Sports + Entertainment serves more than 150
award-winning food and beverage, retail, and facility service
programs in premier stadiums, arenas, convention centers, cultural
attractions, performance venues, and unique entertainment
destinations across North America. The company has received
accolades for industry innovations including autonomous markets,
dining concepts powered by artificial intelligence, and
high-profile events like the MLB World Series, MLB at Rickwood
Field, and NBA All-Star. Aramark has been recognized on FORTUNE’s
list of “World’s Most Admired Companies,” The Civic 50 by Points of
Light 2024, Fair360’s “Top 50 Companies for Diversity” and “Top
Companies for Black Executives,” Newsweek’s list of “America’s Most
Responsible Companies 2024,” the HRC’s “Best Places to Work for
LGBTQ Equality,” and earned a score of 100 on the Disability
Equality Index. Learn more at www.aramark.com and connect with us
on LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and Instagram.
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646.262.8243
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