Andrew Zimmern and Gavin Kaysen Are Taking Their Sports Hospitality Business Nationwide [Video]

When celebrity chef and television host Andrew Zimmern teamed up with 2007 Food & Wine Best New Chef Gavin Kaysen — also a Minneapolis-based restaurateur like Zimmern — to start a sports-focused food business in their home state, it seemed to be more of a happenstance beginning. But there’s nothing unintentional about the pair’s latest decision to take the resulting sports hospitality brand, KZ Provisioning, nationwide. 

“Great businesses are based on problem solving [an issue] that exists in a large enough space that enough people need your solution,” Andrew Zimmern tells Food & Wine about the expansion. “I think we tick that box.” 

KZ Provisioning started with a lunch in 2017. Kaysen was dining with a friend who was a member of the NHL team the Minnesota Wild after a practice at the team’s facility, only to be “dumbfounded” when he learned that the athlete’s meals weren’t centered around nutrition first, he explains …