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The RK Groups creativity and
expertise generates buzz in the media.
Take a moment to read our press clippings and find out what
all the
excitement is about!
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S.A. catering company expanding into
Phoenix
San Antonio Express News
October 11, 2006
The RK Group is making its first foray outside
of Texas, heading west to the Phoenix area to expand its
operations. The 60-year-old locally based catering company,
which has the Convention Center contract, recently purchased the
assets of Continental Catering in Glendale outside of Phoenix.
The RK Group is now the exclusive caterer of the Glendale Civic
Center. The company also recently received the catering contract
for the Tempe Center for the Arts, a theater complex that opens
in April 2007.
"It certainly seems to be a booming area," RK
President Greg Kowalski said of Phoenix. "It's very much like
San Antonio with its activity and construction. These
opportunities came up and we felt like the time is right."
In addition to its San Antonio business, the
company also has catering operations in Austin. Next month,
Kowalski said, the company plans to launch Rosemary Delivers in
Phoenix, which specializes in fast meals to businesses locally
and in Austin.
The RK Group is the flagship company to several
subsidiaries that specialize in the planning and coordination of
conventions, special and corporate events, themed receptions,
tours and transportation.
Henry and Rosemary Kowalski started the company
in 1946 and catered events for HemisFair '68. RK subsidiary
Catering by Rosemary won the Convention Center contract in 1972
and has held on to it ever since.
Melissa Monroe, Express-News Business Writer
RK Group wins golf course concession
contract with City of San Antonio
San Antonio Express News
September 1, 2006
San Antonio City Council approved a five-year golf course
concessions contract with the RK Group, which also hold the
concessions contract for the convention Center. Under the
agreement, the group will operate food and beverage concessions
at each of the citys six golf courses and one driving range,
Parks Director Malcolm Matthews said. In return, the group will
give the city 10 percent of its gross sales, of which half will
go to the golf fund and the other half to a capital improvement
and equipment account.
For the first three months of the contract,
which begins Saturday, the city will put payments into the
equipment fund for improvements to the facilities, Matthews
added.
Rosemary Delivers. If youre calling
Rosemary Delivers these days,
watch for the new look.
San Antonio Express News
May 10, 2006
A division of the RK Group, a top San Antonio caterer,
Rosemary Delivers will be trucking food around town in bright
orange delivery vans. The menu, which you can find online at
rosemary delivers.com, ranges from breakfast and early
morning deliveries of fruit, tacos and full breakfast buffets to
box lunches, sandwich trays, pastry trays and sit-down-meals.
Deliveries go to homes as well as businesses, 7 a.m. noon
Mondays through Fridays. For hot orders, give 24 hours notice.
To order, call (210) 270-8252 or fax (210) 270-8271.
RK Group will provide food and beverage
service for new Medical Center Hotel
San Antonio Express News
April 14, 2006
Executives in the Medical Center soon won't have to travel
very far to host meetings: A 168-room La Quinta Inn and Suites
will openin their backyard next March. On Interstate 10 between
Callaghan Road and Medical Drive, it will be the first
limited-service hotel in the area with a 10,000-square-foot
conference center. "I felt the opportunity was here to not only
serve the needs in that area, but also to provide (less
expensive) hotel rooms," said developer and La Quinta franchisee
Henry Feldman. "And when the leisure market is at a lull we can
still put in meeting business in that hotel, and no one else has
that opportunity." Construction has begun on the eight-story
hotel, which will also include 28 suites, a fitness center and a
breakfast room overlooking a swimming-pool courtyard. Feldman
said nightly room rates will range from $89 to $150.
Feldman is well-known in the local tourism
industry, with a long career in the luxury hotel market,
including managing the Watermark and La Mansion del Rio. This is
the first project of newly formed Martin Feldman Hospitality
Management Co., headed by Feldman. The company plan is to manage
properties for other owners as well as future Feldman
developments.
He has partnered with Greg Kowalski of the RK
Group, which will manage the conference center. The RK Group
over the past 50 years has established a reputation as a
full-service caterer.
The La Quinta brand in San Antonio is not known
for its meeting space. Its 350-room Convention Center hotel was
the first local property with a large meeting space. Feldman
said La Quinta executives were flexible and realized this hotel
needed to be different -- from its meeting space to its
contemporary interior.
Melissa S. Monroe, Business Writer
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