By Iron Chef Leftovers
I am a regular customer of Thundering Hooves. I like their products (pastured, humanely raised livestock out near Spokane), their prices are good and one of their pickup locations was less than a mile from the Iron Chef homestead. Needless to say, I was sad when I read their newsletter today:
Due to unfortunate financial circumstances Thundering Hooves LLC is ceasing all operations immediately. All existing orders and all new orders for our products will not be filled or delivered. We are extremely sorry to inform you with this news and for any inconvenience this may cause you. There may be a limited amount of inventory that will become available. Check the website for updates.
Thank you all for your business, your confidence in us and our products, and your friendship.
Most sincerely,
Joel Huesby
Managing Member
I know they were changing their operations because they had gotten too big, too quickly and couldn’t handle it. I am going to miss their products (and their sales), especially the bacon, a favorite of Mrs. Iron Chef. So long Thundering Hooves. I just wonder what the hell happened.
FlatbreadGarden 
I hear that some of the former employees are putting together a new company to take the place of Thundering Hooves. I can’t wait to find out more about if this is true. I think Thundering Hooves had a lot of debt and was on the verge of bankruptcy for the past couple of years, so they decided their only hope was to grow their sales quickly in 2010, which they did. The problem was that quick growth is expensive to finance so they needed additional help. I know one of the creditors, who told me they had offered a pretty sweet deal to re-invest and roll some debt into equity, but the majority owners wouldn’t go for it.
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