Kansas Grill & Bar

What Kansas Grill & Bar does

Kansas Grill & Bar is an Argentine privately-held restaurant chain founded in June 1999 in San Isidro, Buenos Aires. The company operates 9 points-of-sale in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area — 7 full-service restaurants (Palermo, San Isidro, Pilar, Al Río, Parque Leloir, Milberg, Lomitas) plus 2 dark-kitchen Pick-Up Points for online takeaway (Villa Urquiza, Villa Crespo). It positions itself as a Contemporary American Cuisine concept focused on healthy food, quality ingredients, and differentiated ambiance; each restaurant has distinct architecture, interior design, and music to create a location-specific experience. The 172-employee company targets general diners, business professionals hosting private meetings, and families/groups booking private events at the Chef's Dining Room venue in Pilar (capacity 20-50).

Name

Kansas Grill & Bar

Legal name

Kansas Grill & Bar

Website

https://kansasgrillandbar.com.ar

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Kansas Grill & Bar is an Argentine privately-held Contemporary American Cuisine restaurant chain founded in 1999, operating 7 full-service restaurants plus 2 dark-kitchen Pick-Up Points across Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, serving general diners, business clients, and private-event customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Restaurants

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (7225)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm-to-Table & Contemporary American Restaurants (THAFACAF)

Keywords

• Contemporary american cuisine
• Full-service restaurants
• Dark kitchen pickup
• Private dining events
• Restaurant gift cards

Headquarters

HQ city

San Isidro

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Dining: Revenue from food and beverage sales at 7 restaurant locations across Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires.
2. Gift Cards: Physical gift cards (ARS $20,000) and virtual gift cards (ARS $10,000 to $100,000) usable at any branch with no day/horario restrictions.
3. Private Events: Chef's Dining Room event venue at Kansas Pilar for business lunches, family gatherings, birthdays, and baptisms for 20-50 people.
4. Sauce Sales: Kansas sauces sold through external platform delidips.com.ar for retail purchase.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Kansas Grill & Bar is a multi-location restaurant chain operating 7 full-service restaurants and 2 dark-kitchen pick-up points across Buenos Aires, offering Contemporary American Cuisine with a focus on healthy food. Core revenue comes from dine-in food and beverage sales, supplemented by private event catering at the Chef's Dining Room (Pilar), Happy Hour promotions, physical and virtual gift cards, and retail Kansas-branded sauces distributed through delidips.com.ar.

Product overview

Kansas Grill & Bar is a restaurant chain offering Contemporary American Cuisine focused on healthy food. The core offering consists of full-service restaurant locations (7 branches across Buenos Aires: Palermo, San Isidro, Pilar, Al Río, Parque Leloir, Milberg, and Lomitas). The portfolio includes Happy Hour promotions at select locations, the Chef's Dining Room private event space at Pilar, two dark kitchen Pick-Up Points for takeout orders, Gift Cards in physical and virtual formats, and Kansas Sauces available for retail purchase.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kansas Grill & Bar Restaurants Full-service restaurant chain offering Contemporary American Cuisine focused on healthy food, operated across 7 locations in Buenos Aires CABA and Greater Buenos Aires with dine-in service.
• Chef's Dining Room (Salón del Chef) Private event salon at the Kansas Pilar location, accommodating 20-50 people in a private setting with a deck overlooking a lake; supports business lunches, family gatherings, birthdays, and baptisms.
• Pick-Up Points (Dark Kitchens) Dark-kitchen pick-up service at two locations (Villa Urquiza and Villa Crespo) enabling online orders without dine-in service for takeaway customers.
• Gift Cards (Physical and Virtual) Gift cards available in physical format (ARS $20,000, 48-hour processing) or virtual format (ARS $10,000-$100,000 denominations, instant delivery), usable at any Kansas branch with no day or time restrictions and partial debit allowed.
• Kansas Sauces (Retail) Kansas-branded sauces sold at retail via the third-party online platform delidips.com.ar, extending the Kansas brand into home cooking channels.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• DelidipsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDelidips (delidips.com.ar) serves as an online retail platform for Kansas sauces, allowing customers to purchase Kansas-branded sauces for home use. This extends the Kansas brand beyond restaurant dining into retail grocery/home cooking channels.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Starbucks Argentina: International café chain with dense Buenos Aires footprint. Comparable as a multi-branch food & beverage operator in Buenos Aires competing for casual daytime traffic, gift-card and stored-value customers, and branded retail product extensions.
• Burger King Argentina: International QSR franchise with dense Buenos Aires presence. Comparable as a multi-location food-service operator in Argentina sharing Kansas's customer base for casual and family dining, though serving a different cuisine category at lower price points.
• Hard Rock Cafe Buenos Aires: American-themed full-service restaurant and bar in Buenos Aires. Comparable to Kansas's 'Contemporary American Cuisine' positioning, full-service dine-in model, and bar/ambiance-led differentiation, though at a single flagship location rather than a chain.

Direct peers

• Mostaza: Argentina's largest domestic fast-food chain, headquartered in Buenos Aires with a multi-location dine-in + takeaway model. Directly comparable as a scaled Argentine restaurant operator serving similar casual-dining occasions with similar real-estate footprint.
• Green Eat: Buenos Aires-based healthy-casual restaurant chain with multiple locations. Closely comparable to Kansas on the 'healthy food in a pleasant atmosphere' positioning, mid-market ticket, and multi-branch Buenos Aires footprint.
• SushiClub: Argentine themed-casual restaurant chain with multiple Buenos Aires locations, dine-in and delivery. Comparable to Kansas as a multi-branch Buenos Aires restaurant chain competing for similar casual-dining occasions and family/group outings.
• La Cholita: Argentine empanada and casual-dining chain with multiple Buenos Aires locations. Comparable as a domestic multi-branch casual restaurant chain competing for family/group occasions and takeaway orders in the same metro area.

Emerging players

• TGI Fridays Argentina: American casual-dining chain with limited Argentine presence. Comparable as a competitor for American-themed full-service dining occasions and bar-driven Happy Hour traffic in Buenos Aires.
• Tony Roma's Argentina: American-casual-dining concept with presence in Buenos Aires. Comparable to Kansas on American cuisine positioning and full-service dine-in format, though with much smaller local footprint and a more limited branch network.

Regional players

• Parrilla La Cabaña: Long-established Argentine parrilla-style restaurant group with Buenos Aires locations. Comparable as a multi-branch full-service restaurant operator in Buenos Aires competing for similar dine-in and group/private-event occasions, though anchored in traditional Argentine cuisine rather than Contemporary American.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/kansas.grill.bar
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kansas-grill-&-bar
• Instagraminstagram.com/kansasgrill

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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