August 26, 2021:
As many of you know, in March 2020 as the Pandemic engulfed NYC, we brought the Kettle Corn NYC truck to our home in upstate New York’s Capital District to ‘shelter-in-place’ and wait for the virus to pass. Little did any of us know how long and to what extent of loss many of us would endure. Our hearts go out to those of you who have lost loved ones along the way.🙏🙏🏿🙏🏽

It was because of all of you that we were able to survive those beginning months. It was your kind messages & posts that were so uplifting. You supported us by shipping care packages to your loved ones, co-workers and to the heroes working in the overwhelmed hospitals in NYC.

You are the ones that helped us survive these challenging & uncertain times. We are so grateful for you.

When last summer arrived, we were still closed to the public and our online orders had diminished significantly.

Restrictions that remained in NYC, began to ease in the Capital District.

Literally just in the ‘nick-of-time’ were we given our first opportunity to open locally at the Albany County Rail Trail, thanks to

Daniel McCoy – Albany County Executive

This opportunity introduced us to the Capital District, and as a result, were invited to other venues. We would not be operating today if it were not for the support of the many that came to the truck and the following organizations.

Thank you

Windy Hill Orchard- East

Hatchet Hardware of Brunswick

Feed Me 518

Nellie Ackerman-Vellano

Rensselaer County Dept of Health

Albany County Dept of Health

Town of Brunswick

Tamarac Plaza/CMA

Udderly Ice Cream

Westmere Fire Department

Guilderland Farmer’s Market

Over the past year and a half, our future in NYC went from ‘waiting-to-return’ to more uncertainty. At times, it seemed like the endless cycle of having a glimmer of hope for the Pandemic to end, to the return of yet another mutated version of Covid.

With this continued uncertainty and being unable to continue to support both our base operations in NYC (office lease, insurance & permits) and operations in the Capital District, I have been forced to make the decision to not return to NYC. This was one of the most difficult decisions that I have ever had to make.

Since 2004, we have gotten to know many of you, starting at our early days at street fairs & festivals then Bryant Park and most recently midtown Manhattan & Forest Hills, to name a few. You’ve showed up so happy to see us, week-after-week, year-after-year.

I love you all and am eternally grateful for you being with us along our journey and being a part of our Kettle Corn NYC family.

With love and gratitude,- Ken Nercessian

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Why We Do What We Do?

The reason is YOU!

When you tell us how our amazingly delicious our kettle corn is – how it’s the best you have ever eaten and that you just can’t get enough – well, that’s all we need to hear.

What Makes Us Unique?

We make kettle corn ‘the old-fashioned way’. We hand stir each batch in a giant kettle right on the food truck! There is an art to making kettle corn fresh by hand. Our specialized cooking technique allows us to infuse the flavors into each kernel, producing mouth-watering kettle corn. We immediately cool it and bag it – to give you the freshest kettle corn you will ever taste.

We would never think of using automated machines to pop our kettle corn, nor would we leave our kettle corn in open bins to be exposed to the air.


History

Established in 2004.

Kettle Corn NYC started in 2004 at a street fair in NYC by a local hotel chef with a pop-up tent, a kettle and no idea where it was going to lead to. New Yorkers couldn’t get enough of our kettle corn, so we kept creating new flavors for them to keep coming back to each week at the festivals. Food Network got wind of what we were doing and featured us in their Unwrapped segment in 2009. In that same year, Bryant Park invited us to participate in their Holiday Shops event. People from all over the world could not get enough of our kettle corn. In 2011 WNBC featured us on their New York Live segment. The host brought some kettle corn back to the studio where they did a follow up segment around everyone as they could not stop eating it. In 2014 Fox 5 featured us on Good Day New York. By this time we had a significant following of people that kept demanding that we open a store. We built a Kettle Corn NYC Food Truck with the help of our Kickstarter backers, where we are available all over the city each day.


Meet the Business Owner

Ken Nercessian

Managing Member

Ken started Kettle Corn NYC in 2004 while working as a Chef de Partie in a prestigious NYC hotel. New Yorkers couldn’t get enough of his kettle corn, so he kept creating new flavors for them to keep coming back to. As a chef, he created with a love of flavors ranging from Sweet to Savory to Spicy. He has created over 100 flavors along the journey.