PUSH BUTTON CHERRY PITTER

The Mark Schlise family grew cherries in Door County, Wisconsin for over 40 years, starting in 1950. At that time, after a long day of harvesting, the "women folk" would work late into the night pitting cherries with paper clips and hair pins. Grandpa Mark said there had to be a better way and recruited Otto Krasburg, a tool and die maker vacationing from Chicago, to design the Push Button Cherry Pitter using 9 different dies, which would be expensive to duplicate today. So, despite the trend to outsource manufacturing to Asia, the Push Button Cherry Pitter is still wholly made in America!... Upon Mark's death in 1991, second generation Rita and Tony Schlise began marketing the Push Button Cherry Pitter. Sales were expanded to Michigan and then to 24 more states and Canada. Rita died in 2003, after 59 years of marriage. When Tony died in 2013, his eldest daughter Suzie Schlise continued the business with the invaluable help of cousin Lori Evenson. Suzie is retiring from her career as..