Quaker Maid Meats (QMM) is celebrating the life of Stanley J. Szortyka, its company's founder, who passed away on July 1, 2022. Under Szortyka's leadership, Quaker Maid Meats has become the largest frozen retail sandwich steak producer in the country, which includes the Steak-umm brand.
Born in Pringle, Penn. in 1927 to Polish immigrants, growing up in a coal mining town was a hard and difficult life which Stanley vowed to escape. After serving in World War II, he returned to Pringle to work at French Steak Co., where he developed a passion for the meat business. After starting a family of his own, Szortyka founded QMM in 1960 and was responsible for the full scope of the business, leading production, sales, company growth and more.