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We’re Hiring

We’re expanding our team to amplify our collective impact.

If you share our values and want to shape the future where businesses enrich their community, environment, and the health and wellbeing of people and the planet, we’d love to hear from you!

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Houstonia

Serving Up Camaraderie

Houston’s Hottest New Restaurant will make you feel right at home

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The Minnesota Star Tribune

Meet the chefs feeding the Wolves and other Minnesota elite athletes

What started as an observation has evolved into a comprehensive program that goes far beyond standard team catering.

“We don‘t drop off food and throw it into a steam table,” Zimmern said. “We have a hospitality manager embedded with the team. We have our cooks and chefs embedded with the team. We are actually there every single day in the practice facilities and on game day.”

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Houston Chronicle

10 best dishes Restaurant Critic Bao Ong ate in April


Restaurant Critic Bao Ong calls Camaraderie Chef Shawn Gawle’s “spectacular” Carrot Cavatelli one of the best dishes in Houston

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Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

Chef Gavin Kaysen will open The Merchant Room at Naples Beach Club, a Four Seasons Resort

The Merchant Room will be the signature restaurant at the Naples Beach Club, which Four Seasons plans to open this fall.

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Houston Chronicle

The Best Restaurants in the Houston Heights


Just a little over a month since opening, chef-owner Shawn Gawle’s first restaurant is already feeling like a neighborhood gem.

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WTiN

Ep. 118: Scalable bio-based solutions


Alexa Raab and Matthew Cole explain how CovationBio Sorona harnesses the power of science to look towards the future potential uses for bio-based materials in apparel

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SXSW

KZ Provisioning at SXSW

Co-Owner Andrew Zimmern with NFL legend Will Blackmon (R) and NBA legend Channing Frye (L) at the SXSW 2025 Sportico House for a panel discussion “Ventures Beyond the Sports World”

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Minnesota Monthly

Gavin Kaysen’s Second Self-Published Book Spotlights Culinary Collaborations

Featured chefs include April Bloomfield, Christopher Kostow, Curtis Stone, Daniel Boulud, Daniel Humm, Daniela Soto-Innes, and many others.

The book is now available for pre-sale

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Houston Chronicle

The 16 most anticipated Houston restaurants opening this year includes Camaraderie by Chef Shawn Gawle

When the former lead pastry chef at March opens his Heights restaurant later this winter, it’s more about creating a “family-style dining experience” with warm hospitality than a traditional fine dining experience.

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James Beard Foundation

Spoon and Stable earns Outstanding Restaurant semifinalist nomination from James Beard Foundation

Gavin Kaysen’s first Minneapolis restaurant earned the recognition today, a decade after being a Best New Restaurant nominee.

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New Partner Announcement

Chef Shawn Gawle Announces Plans for his First Restaurant in Houston, TX

Camaraderie will open in the Houston Heights neighborhood in early 2025

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Robb Report

The 50 Most Powerful People in American Fine Dining

Robb Report's second annual ranking of the restaurant industry's most influential figures, as chosen by their peers.

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Bloomberg

Two Star Chefs Are Secretly Feeding Your Favorite NBA and WNBA Players

Aramark has teamed up with Bizarre Food’s Chef Andrew Zimmern and Soigne Hospitality Chef Gavin Kaysen to serve more pro and college athletes nationwide

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Food & Wine

How One Chef Has Changed the Midwestern Culinary Landscape

2007 F&W Best New Chef Gavin Kaysen is paving the way for young cooks in Minneapolis and beyond.

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New Partner Announcement

elemental mktg proudly announces it is now the agency of record for KZ Provisioning, a culinary company founded by award-winning Chefs Andrew Zimmern and Gavin Kaysen in 2017 to fuel professional athletes.

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BBC Wildlife

Can the Great Barrier Reef be saved?

How Australia’s Indigenous Peoples could hold the key

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