About OZG
Built Around the Grill. Built Around the People.
Grilling has never really been about the grill.
It’s about what happens around it.
The smell of breakfast on a slow Sunday morning. Smash burgers when friends come over. Steaks after a long week. Kids running through the backyard. Someone pulling up a chair while the food cooks.
The grill is just where it all starts.
That’s what OZG is built around.
We create products for people who take pride in their outdoor cooking setup and want it ready for the next cookout. Products that solve real problems, make ownership easier, and let you spend less time worrying about your equipment and more time enjoying it.
But we want OZG to become more than a company that simply makes grilling accessories.
We want to become part of the community surrounding them.
We Want to See How America Grills
One of our goals is to travel across the United States and experience grilling culture firsthand.
Because grilling looks different everywhere.
A backyard cookout in Texas has a different feel from one in Florida. The Carolinas have their traditions. Kansas City has its own. California, Tennessee, the Midwest, the Northeast — every part of the country has its own food, personalities, techniques and traditions.
We want to experience all of it.
- BBQ competitions
- Grilling festivals
- Tailgates
- Local events
- Backyard cookouts
We want to meet the people behind the grills, hear their stories, see their setups, learn the recipes they’ve spent years perfecting and understand the little things that make cooking outdoors special to them.
Because we believe some of the best ideas don’t come from a conference room.
They come from conversations around a hot grill.
The Community Is the Heart of OZG
We don’t want to build products in isolation and simply hope people like them.
We want the people who actually use them to help shape where OZG goes next.
- Tell us what works.
- Tell us what doesn’t.
- Show us the setup you’ve spent years building.
- Tell us about the product you wish someone would make.
- Share the recipe everyone keeps asking you for.
As OZG grows, we want to listen, learn and build alongside the people who make this community what it is.
Because you’re not just someone who bought one of our products.
You’re part of the reason we’re building the next one.
And We’re Just Getting Started
OZG started with a simple idea: make owning and protecting your griddle a little easier.
But the vision has become much bigger.
We want to build products that earn their place beside your grill. We want to meet the people using them. We want to travel, cook, learn and experience the different grilling cultures across the country.
And hopefully, somewhere along the way, OZG becomes a small part of the moments that happen around your grill.
The breakfasts.The burgers.The friends.The family.The summer nights that last longer than planned.
So if you ever see OZG at an event, a BBQ competition or somewhere along the road, come say hello.
Show us your setup. Tell us what you’re cooking. And maybe we’ll stay for dinner.
There are a lot of grills out there.
We plan on seeing as many of them as we can.
See you around the grill.
— OZG