Maine(08/30/07) - As more and more restaurants explore the unique menu opportunities presented by grilling, baking, broiling and smoking with real wood, the challenge becomes securing a reliable, cost effective source of quality grilling woods. Lexington Outdoors, Inc. and their line of Maine Grilling Woods has met that challenge head on. According to partner Ken Johnson, "restaurants generally have little storage space and are always under pressure to keep their cost-per-serving as low as possible. So we designed a just-in-time, free shipping program that allows restaurants and food service outlets to get the savings of volume buying without having to warehouse the volume."
According to Johnson, the restaurants select a volume price level based upon estimated usage over the next 12 month and that locks in the price they pay from the very first case you order. Maine Grilling Woods warehouse everything until the customer needs it. A restaurant can order once a week, once a month or even once a day with free shipping as well. Maine Grilling Woods offers 9 in stock varieties of hand-cut native Maine wood including Wild Apple, DownEast Hickory, Mountain Mesquite, Northern White Cedar, Acadian Oak, Sugar Maple, Northern Beechnut, Golden Birch and Black Cherry. Maine Grilling Woods products include Smoking Chips, Grilling Chunks, Natural Oval Grilling Planks, Mini-Chips for stove-top smokers and Chiminea small dimension firewood for offset smokers and wood-fired ovens and cookers. All wood is packaged in 1.6 cubic foot boxes (25-40# depending on species)

CONTACT
More information on the Just-in-Time program is available from the company at www.MaineGrillingWoods.com or by calling 207-794-8232

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