Luther's Restaurant and convenience store Luther's Smokehouse in LeRoy, Kansas is one of Kansas' fairly little known gems. Martin Luther started producing his delicious jerky in 1974, and it really took off when a store near Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant started selling it to the construction workers building the power generation facility. When construction ended, the workers started ordering the jerky from other parts of the country. Today Luther has a restaurant & convenience store in the original building, and a new modern smokehouse next door. A third of the Luther's jerky sales are mail order. Local retail and wholesale to other outlets each account for another third. Martin, himself, is one of the highlights of visiting the smokehouse and store. He is proud of his jerky, pemmican and other products, and happy to answer questions. He travels between and through the store and smokehouse on a Segway, and sometimes lets visitors try it as well. Luther's smokehouse used to produce beef, buffalo & turkey jerky, pemmican (lean buffalo roasts ground tender & dried - preserved with raisins), buffalo sausage. They have stopped producing many of these items, but still have various beef jerkies, ground & pressed pork & beef jerky, beef sticks, and summer sausage. The pemmican was slightly sweet from dried fruit used in its preparation and if it ever comes back, I am a customer. During our most recent visit, the marked prices were all for cash purchases and there was a 3% cash surcharge.
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