NEWS & MEDIA
InsideFMCG.com.au
Irene Dong, June 4, 2025
Maple Leaf Meats has made the leap into retail with the launch of its first signature sauce range, after years of serving from its Melbourne food truck.
Maple Leaf Meats distributes its premium, small-batch sauces to independent and specialty grocers across the country in three major flavours: Tomato Sauce, Maple BBQ, and Backyard Barbecue.
According to the firm, each product is made with no artificial ingredients and honed through years of hands-on consumer feedback to deliver robust, consistent flavour.
SooToday.com
Darren Taylor, Dec 28, 2024
Ken Warmington launched Maple Leaf Meats in 2016 and now runs a popular food truck in Melbourne, where he sells his original sauce through Australian supermarket chains
Sault native Ken Warmington is living his professional dream in the food industry as the co-owner/operator of Maple Leaf Meats. However, he’s living the dream far away from Canada — the Land of the Maple Leaf — operating a popular food truck and selling his original barbecue sauce in Australia.
He sells burgers, ribs and chicken wings from his food truck with wife Angela in Yarraville, seven miles from Melbourne.
“They’re the best chicken wings in Melbourne," Warmington said in an interview with SooToday, while visiting relatives and friends in the Sault for Christmas. "We do about 1.7 tonnes of chicken wings a year. We can do 105 burgers in an hour at our top speed."
The Warmingtons also make, bottle and sell their Maple Leaf Meats sauces in three flavours — Tomato Sauce, Backyard BBQ Sauce and Maple BBQ Sauce — from a factory in the Melbourne area.
The maple syrup is imported from Canada.
considerthesauce.net
Kenny Weir, Sep 27, 2017
Maple Leaf Meats, Yarraville Gardens
The initial buzz that attended the arrival of food trucks in the west has long since faded.
Trucks still park at Yarraville Gardens and elsewhere, but they have become for us – and no doubt others – just one of many eating scenarios.
For this Saturday lunch, our post-kung fu, food-seeking rambling finds us parking and intent on doing the “truck thing” for the first time in a long while.
We do really, really good.