Each year during the Christmas holiday season, Richards Pizza will take orders for the "Nationwide Famous Steak Send-Off" and pack and ship thousands of Richards Famous Italian Steak Sandwiches in January. "We have shipped them to steak sandwich lovers all over the United States. People send them to relatives and friends - and even place orders for themselves", says owner Karen Underwood.

Here's how it works:
Each order of six sandwiches - precooked, frozen, packaged in dry ice in heavy-duty reusable coolers and complete with reheating instructions - can be sent anywhere in the United States. (Prices higher to Alaska and Hawaii). Unfortunately, customs regulations prohibit shipments to foreign countries.

All of the sandwich ingredients are packaged separately including six 88% lean beef patties, sweet Spanish onions, crunchy pickles, tasty secret-recipe sauce, and toasted Italian buns.

Orders can be placed in person, by phone, or on the website. People phoning in orders or using the website may use Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover.

To avoid shipping problems with perishable products during the holiday season, we take orders each year from November through December and ship the sandwiches in January. We will send each recipient an acknowledgment card and free gift from Richards that arrives before Christmas Day.

We will begin taking orders for 2012 around the first of November. We cannot ship steak sandwiches throughout the rest of the year for several reasons: 1.) Obtaining dry ice in Cincinnati one order at a time is very costly and 2.) We do not receive the substantial shipping discount that we do when shipping the large number of packages in January.

If you have additional questions, you can send an email to steaksendoff@richardspizza.com.