What started as a fundraiser for students to visit Costa Rica quickly turned into a growing business. In 2017 students at Owensville High School cooked and served fresh kettle corn all year so they could enjoy an educational trip to Costa Rica. This continued until the owners, Randy and Cindy Hawkins watched a vendor cook pork rinds at a local festival.

 

Crunchy, healthy original pork rinds were the perfect addition to our kettle corn business. After retirement, Hawk’s Popcorn and Pork Rinds was born. January, 2019, we started our business with a tent, some tables and some turkey fryers.

 

We quickly found that our business could not be contained in a tent and purchased a food truck and a building in Conway Missouri. We really focused on the development of fresh pork rinds. Through our partnership with the Missouri Department of Agriculture we studied the cleanest, freshest way to produce pork rinds for retail establishment. We quickly placed our products in over twenty stores in Southwest Missouri.

 

That is when the fun really started. What flavors were we going to add to our crunchy goodness? We listened to the requests of people at our shows, experimented with the combination of different flavors and developed the twenty flavors we currently served. 

 

Hawk’s is a family owned and operated business. March 2024 will see a brand new Pork Production building on our property designed to make our process more efficient. We are ready to grow with you.