Nearing $1 Billion in Sales, Chomps Plans to Churn Out More Meat

The chief executive officer of Chomps—the wildly popular US meat snack brand—has been trying to cap his kids at two sticks a day. Rashid Ali, 44, set the same goal for himself, but it’s a hard promise to keep when your office is full of them. (Job postings at the snacking startup dangle benefits such as paid parental leave, unlimited time off and “enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could.”) But while high-protein bites line the Chomps office in Chicago’s hip Fulton Market District—fittingly, the city’s historical meatpacking hub—most of ...