Join Chicago Steak Company in Delivering the Ultimate Steak Experience.mp4 (5m
57s) 1 speaker (Speaker 1)

[0:00:01] Speaker 1: In 2008, Matt Crowley and Tom Tsitouris founded Chicago
Steak Company with one mission in mind, to supply customers with the world's
finest beef. We specialize in the very best steaks your money can buy, hand
cut, Midwest raised, USDA prime beef shipped direct to homes and offices
nationwide where they're enjoyed by our customers one juicy, tender bite at a
time. Our steaks make exceptional gifts for family, friends and business
colleagues and are the perfect centerpiece to any backyard cookout. Whether
ordered through our catalog or online through our newly redesigned website, our
customers know that when they purchase steaks from Chicago Steak Company,
they'll be getting only the highest restaurant quality steaks available. In
fact, our steaks grace the tables of numerous five star restaurants allowing
our customers to have a gourmet steakhouse experience all in the comfort and
convenience of your home. At Chicago Steak Company, we start with the finest in
American beef, heritage cattle raised in the Midwest. Our local ranchers have
dedicated generations to caring for their family-owned cattle farms, and the
results show in the exceptional marbling and flavor of Chicago Steak Company
steaks. Our steaks are aged up to six weeks in the largest dry-aging room in
the US, the exact same facility trusted by gourmet chefs and restaurateurs
across the country. Our steaks are trimmed by artisan butchers the old
fashioned way, hand carved with expert precision. The result is an
exceptionally tender and flavorful steak bite after beefy bite. At Chicago
Steak Company, we not only talk the talk, we also deliver on our promises of
excellence with our awards and celebrity endorsements. When pitted against
seven of the best online steak purveyors in the country during the Great Steak
Debate in Manhattan, Chicago Steak Company was the talk of the competition,
winning the people's choice award for the best tasting steak. During the event,
we even beat out Omaha Steaks, our main competitor in the mail order steak
business and a brand worth over $500 million. Our press coverage has been
incredible. We've been featured on television channels such as the Home
Shopping Network, Discovery Science Channel and national news programs just to
name a few. Celebrities like Mike Ditka and Greg Grunberg from Star Wars sing
our praises. But what really matters is our customer feedback, which is second
to none in the steak direct mail industry. At Chicago Steak Company, we take
personal pride in making sure each and every customer is 100% satisfied with
their order and we're dedicated to creating an all encompassing luxury
experience for each of our customers. Our customers know that our steaks make
the perfect gift for any occasion and our sales figures agree as the brand
continues to gain market share in the $18 billion food gifting market. Over the
past eight years, we've seen strong and consistent growth and our revenue has
skyrocketed. But just being good has never been good enough for us. We've
recently teamed up with major national companies like Costco, Neiman Marcus,
goldbely.com, FTD Florists and more where you will soon find the Chicago Steak
Company products available for sale. We expect these partnerships to lead to
huge surges in our sales and overall brand reach. The newly revamped website
features a professional, luxurious look and feel to match the quality of the
products we sell and industry leading conversion rates to turn more website
visitors into sales. Our new Steak University portion of the website features
informative videos and creative articles that have already reached over half a
million YouTube viewers and over 30,000 organic Facebook followers on our
Chicago Steak Company Facebook page. With our additional product line,
www.mylivelobster.com, customers can now purchase fresh, luscious live Maine
lobsters from anywhere in the country. With the seamless roll out of the new
brand, we're also demonstrating that we can capitalize on the Chicago Steak
Company name and infrastructure to expand exponentially in the future with less
overhead and startup costs. We have also added additional price points to our
existing product lines and new products to pair with our steaks in gift boxes
making our luxury products affordable and accessible to a wider range of
customers, and this brings us to our most exciting addition to the Chicago
Steak Company, you. We have big plans for the Chicago Steak Company brand.
Using our CEO and Chief Visionary Tom Tsitouris' Extensive restaurant
development experience, our goal is to have Chicago Steak Company kiosks
located in high-end malls throughout the key food gifting holiday season. Long
term, we envision testing small footprint luxury boutique meat shops
strategically located in upscale neighborhoods around the country. Our ultimate
vision, classic, affordable American steakhouse restaurants featuring the
Chicago Steak Company name. Chicago Steak Company restaurants would bring our
award winning USDA prime steaks and burgers to American neighborhoods. In
short, we aim to make Chicago Steak Company a household name for luxury steaks
and complementary products expanding the growth and reach of our brand and
providing excellent returns to investors along the way. As an investor, you
will be part of a growing company that is intent on becoming our customers one
stop shop for the gourmet and luxury lifestyle experience. In the future, we
are exploring an IPO with a listing on the NASDAQ OTC market with an eye toward
the NASDAQ capital market. Other considerations include an acquisition by a
large conglomerate. At Chicago Steak Company, we are interested in becoming the
best through hard work and dedication to our brand. We are looking for a select
group of investors who are interested in doing the same. The Chicago Steak
Company, the ultimate steak experience.  [0:05:54]



Unlocking the Secrets of Dry-Aged Beef.mp4 (2m 52s) 1 speaker (Speaker 1)

[0:00:07] Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Mark Kranenberg with Steak University TV. I'm so
excited to do this video with you guys today, because we're unlocking the
secrets of dry-aged beef. When it comes to dry-aged meat, there's nothing more
prized than a tasty dry-aged steak. When it comes to steaks, dry aging creates
a tenderness, richness, and depth of flavor that you just can't find in other
cuts of meat. Dry aging takes time, care, and craft, which is why supermarkets
rarely sell dry-aged beef. Instead, dry-aged steaks are usually found in
five-star restaurants and high-end steakhouses, many of whom have their own
custom-built dry age lockers. So, how does dry aging happen, and what makes a
great dry-aged steak? To start with, you need great beef. USDA has three top
grades for beef: USDA Prime, USDA Choice, and USDA Select. If you want a truly
steakhouse-quality steak, you need to stick with USDS Prime, which has the best
marbling and tenderness of any USDA grade. Next comes the dry aging itself. Dry
aging takes place in specialized refrigerators called aging lockers. These
lockers are precisely controlled for temperature and humidity. Butchers use
racks or hangers so that air can flow over the meat's surface, which is
essential for the dry aging process. Beef is then left to age for multiple
weeks at a time, usually 21 to 28 days. During this time, three things happen
to make dry-aged steaks extra-flavorful. First, moisture starts to evaporate.
With less moisture, flavor becomes more concentrated, meaning each steak has a
more intense and beefy taste. Second, enzymes in the beef start to break down
tough muscle fibers. This tenderizes beef, which creates steak so tender, you
could cut it with a fork. Finally, these same enzymes create new, richer
flavors. This is why dry-aged beef has a more indulgent, umami-rich, and
complex flavor profile than unaged or wet-aged steaks. Because of their
superior tenderness and flavor, dry-aged steaks have become a luxury item among
steak lovers and gourmets around the world. If you're looking for an amazing,
truly steakhouse-quality steak at home, be sure to look for dry-aged USDA Prime
beef. I'm Mark Kranenberg. For more Steak University TV, be sure to subscribe
to our channel, or check us out online at mychicagosteak.com.  [0:02:36]



Chicago Steak Company - How will my order arrive.mp4 (6m 19s) 1 speaker
(Philippe Bind)

[0:00:02] Philippe Bind: Good Morning. Welcome to the Chicago Steak Company. My
name is Philippe Bind. I'm the Corporate Chef welcoming you into my kitchen. I
wanted to personally thank you, first of all, for enjoying and receiving some
of our perfectly packaged product at your home. What I'm going to do is to make
sure now to go through the process with you at what exactly have you purchased.
Again, thank you very much for purchasing that. I wanted to make sure that you
received this product, and boxed perfectly packaged, washed, and insulated, to
your house. Upon receiving that we will want to make sure to open the package
up correctly. Let's just at this point open this up. There we go. Gotta go
through all the tape just to make sure everything is perfect in here. There we
go, so now, up. We have a couple of little goodies in here for you. The first
thing is going to be your packaging slip just to make sure that you actually
are receiving the product that you have ordered. We take very great pride in
making sure to check every single order that we process so that all of our
customers are happily satisfied with the product that they receive. This is
going to be this. In regards to your registration card that you receive right
here, this card is going to be packaged specifically for you and has at the
bottom as you can see right here, a registration number that has been designed
specifically for your order and processed just for you. Again, a little touch
for you just to make sure that we take care of our customers the way we like
to. When opening up the card you will see some instructions on how to cook the
product, thaw the product, just to help you out and making sure that you enjoy
the quality steak that you have just purchased. On top of that, we always want
to make sure that you come back, so we have included a gift check for $25 that
will, hopefully, bring you back after you've enjoyed this great steak. As well
as a little Thank You card for shopping with us. That will give you additional
deals from free lobsters to 10 or 15% off based on the orders that you have or
will be purchasing from us as well. One caution that I want to make sure that
we all look at, which is very important, is that this product has been packed
in dry ice. You want to make sure never to touch dry ice. For this purpose we
have wrapped every piece of dry ice in here separately to protect you. It is
very normal that the product may come to you without any dry ice left in the
box. Now that we've gone through this, let's open up this little box of goodies
here. What we will have is on your first box here from the Chicago Steak
Company, when we look at it what we have here is our chicken breast with lemon
pepper. That you actually have purchased from us, so I'm sure you will enjoy
that. In the second box, what we have, we are going to have gourmet beef
burgers. Obviously we will have burgers on the grill. I'm sure you will enjoy
them. If I could I will come with you and enjoy them with you. In the last box,
oh you really know what's good, we actually have here our Chicago best seller.
In our best seller we are going to have the filet mignon, the boneless strips,
the rib-eye, as well as, our top sirloin steak. Again, this is our best seller.
I know you will enjoy this product. When you see inside the box you will see a
little bit of the dry ice left packaged. We want to make sure just to leave
this in here. Do not touch it. Put the lid back on. We'll put this box aside
for right now. If we look at our best seller we want to make sure that we are
going to look this and open it properly. We are getting my little dandy knife
right here. Here we are going to open it. It looks like you have just purchased
a diamond at . What you see right here is the Chicago Steak Company little
sticker wrapped perfectly so that you will see in here that you have your
sirloin steaks perfectly cut and individually cryovaced for your purpose. Your
two filet mignon again as well cyrovaced perfectly for you. Your two rib-eye
steaks cut specifically the way you have ordered it, as well as your two New
York strips. Here we are with the product that is going to be in our Chicago
best seller box of steak. The proper way now of making sure that you get to
enjoy the steaks is obviously that you will have to thaw the product correctly.
For this process you will remove it from the freezer. Place in your
refrigerator anywhere from 24 to 36 hours just to make sure that the product
has the chance to thaw out properly under refrigeration. Upon opening up the
product, you will see that the flesh of the meat is going to turn bright red.
That is called blooming, which is perfect. You will see a perfect product that
will come to you thawed out after 36 hours. Put it on the grill. The last
thing, enjoy it. Thank you.  [0:06:08]



How to cook a burger on the grill - Steak University.mp4 (3m 14s) 3 speakers
(Speaker 1, Mark Kraneburg, Gabe)

[0:00:01] Speaker 1: This video is sponsored by Chicago Steak Company. Steak
University is dedicated to teaching you how to cook the ultimate steak
experience.

[0:00:11] Mark Kraneburg: Hi, I'm Mark Kranenburg welcome back to Steak
University TV. Today we're hanging out in my backyard making USDA prime steak
burgers. Did you know that you could have the ultimate steak experience eating
a hamburger? These burgers are made from steak trimmings of USDA prime beef,
which is top two percent of beef in the US. As you can see these burgers are
all individually vacuum packed, so you can pull them out as you need them, no
waste. Not all our burgers come like this, just the USDA prime and Wagyu
burgers, these are restaurant style burgers. So, as you can see they're really
thick, which means they end up really juicy. The first thing you need to know
is your grills gotta be smoking hot, I like to bury the needle, so to speak.
Crack the grill open. I always go in, and put a little bit of oil on the grill,
that's the secret right there. Oh, yeah. Get that grill nice and black. That's
a thing of beauty right there. Crack the package. That's nice and juicy. Slap
it on that grill. Hear that? Beautiful. Don't forget to put you Chicago Steak
Spice on it. I like to put my on when it's on the grill. I like to put a nice
heavy layer. Now we're gonna close it up and let it sit for three minutes. In
the meantime, we're gonna put a little bit of oil on our bun, and get it ready
for toasting. I just like to put a little bit of oil, some of the good stuff
right there. You might ask, what does a guy do for three minutes while he's
waiting to flip his burger? I tell you what, you play a little bit of Tetris.
You got your steak burgers on the grill, you got a beautiful view, what could
be better? All right. It looks like our buns are ready, it's looking about
perfect, if you ask me. Throw those off to the side. The three minutes is up. I
like to put it on a new spot on the grill. You can never have too much Chicago
Steak Spice. All right. Six minutes is up, it's time to open it up and get this
party started. My mouth's watering. Just like any steak you gotta remember, you
gotta let your burger sit for five minutes, and let those juices reabsorb. All
right. Let's load this babies up, tomato, onion, little lettuce, couple pickles
for me. Now that's a burger. You all know what I think, let's get the official
taste tester here, Gabe take a bite of that. How's it taste?

[0:02:47] Gabe: Good.

[0:02:47] Mark Kraneburg: This is one of those episodes that I just couldn't
wait to do because I love burgers. I'm Mark from Steak University TV, don't
forget to subscribe, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, and we'll see
you next time. Happy grilling.

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