We're building a retail home for the work you're already doing.
The Melk Stand is a raw milk drive-thru coming to the Wasatch Front. The purpose of this page is to tell you who we are, what we're building, and how we'd handle your milk if we partnered together.
Our family's eyes were opened to the importance of healthy ingredients — and healthy sources — when we discovered that the cure to our daughter's autoimmune struggles was simply natural foods. She wasn't lactose intolerant or celiac, despite the diagnoses. She didn't need steroids for her skin, a low-FODMAP diet, or any of the other things that seemed to kind of help, sometimes, and sometimes not. She just needed real food.
That experience is why we're building The Melk Stand. We believe in it despite its commercial challenges, and we expect many dairies feel the same way. We're confident in our logistics plan, our location, and the future of the natural dairy industry of Utah. We want this project to be a family business that lasts generations and to become a substantial retail presence on the Wasatch Front that honors what hard-working dairies do. We're excited to serve customers who need this as much as our family did.
— Mark Feil, Utah County, UT
A drive-thru.
We're nostalgic about the days when Winder Dairy had drive-throughs. Our primary goal is to augment and differentiate what that used to be with a small physical retail location on the Wasatch Front where customers can drive through and pick up raw milk by the cup or gallon, hand-spun raw milk shakes, and fresh-cut fries fried in 100% beef tallow. No grocery aisle. No third-party distribution. No interstate sales.
We're building under Utah's Raw-for-Retail framework and the SB108 mobile-unit provision. UDAF permitting is in process.
Cold chain, traceability, and attention to detail.
We treat your product the same way you do — because the way we handle it after it leaves your dock is the only thing standing between your reputation and our customers.
- Refrigerated transport from your dock to our cooler, end-to-end cold chain monitored.
- FIFO rotation, dated labels showing your dairy and the bottling date.
- Lot-level traceability — if a recall is ever needed, we can identify exactly which gallons came from which lot, on which day.
- Customer waiver workflow handled by us at the point of sale. You don't inherit our customer-facing paperwork.
- Sold in Utah only. Never resold, never re-routed, never crossing state lines.
You're elevated and up in front by default.
Every gallon, every cup, every receipt names the producing dairy. Your brand on the menu board. Your name on the label. The point of this place is that the customer knows whose milk they're drinking — and that the dairy behind it gets seen.
If you'd rather not be named publicly, we honor that — it's your call, not ours. But our default is full credit, because we think you've earned it.
Modest at first.
We hope volume grows quickly. Realistically, our practical floor at opening is on the order of 50–100 gallons per week per producing dairy in the first 60 days, with room to grow as the stand proves out demand. We'd rather start small and earn the right to scale than overcommit and force you to absorb shortfalls on our behalf.
We're open on contract structure — term length, termination terms. We'd rather start a conversation about what works for your operation than show up with a one-size-fits-all template.
A short list of guardrails.
- Blend milk from multiple dairies into a single bottle.
- Repackage your product into unlabeled containers.
- Make health claims that put your permit at risk.
- Sell your milk outside Utah.
- Pressure you to take on volume you can't sustainably produce.
Lifting the floor for raw dairy in Utah.
A real raw-milk retail presence on the Wasatch Front isn't a zero-sum thing. It expands the audience beyond on-farm pickup, normalizes the product for customers who haven't found their way to a dairy yet, and gives Utah's producers a stable, public-facing channel that respects the way you already operate.
That's the bet behind The Melk Stand. The dairies are the foundation. We're just a storefront.
Operator track record.
The Melk Stand is one of several Utah-registered operating businesses under a single holding company. We've built and run companies that work under federal and state regulatory scrutiny, and we treat that experience as transferable to UDAF and the raw milk framework.