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About Us

CheeseSlicing, LLC was founded in 2004 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin by owner/manager Lisa Tanck. Our guests are our number one priority, so we strive to obtain the best quality cheese slicers.

We provide stylish, durable, outstanding products and they make exceptional ideas for your holiday gifts, birthdays, picnics or other special occasions.

Local online business owners give back to community

By Doug Carroll Sheboygan Press staff No matter how you slice it, Erik and Lisa Tanck are busy people. Their life together is one big moving target. They have home-based businesses (yes, that's plural). They do a load of community service already and are taking on more. And they've got three teenage daughters. "It gets to be really crazy sometimes," said Lisa, admitting that all is lost without the organizational skills both of them possess. Since 2002, the couple have maintained several online businesses, the most prominent of which sells cheese slicers and related accessories. The garage at their south Sheboygan home serves as their warehouse, from which they pack and ship as many as 400 slicers a month. No big deal? It becomes a very big deal when an 18-wheeler pulls up to the house, ready to unload a ton and a half of marble slicers. And that occurs monthly. During the holiday season, so many packages are coming and going that you can't see the front door. However, work allows them the flexibility they desire – and require – for doing other things. Erik helps every year with the spring musical at Horace Mann Middle School, directing a cast of 65 and crew of 25. Through their church, Praise Fellowship, Lisa soon will begin a visitation ministry at the Sheboygan County Detention Center. Both volunteer with St. Vincent de Paul as financial counselors to those in need. "We've been blessed," Lisa said, "and we've always wanted to help people." The light bulb for a new lifestyle switched on for the Tancks after they attended a seminar in Green Bay about online businesses. "We found out that a lot of Internet entrepreneurs don't have to sit there and mind the store," said Erik, a Sheboygan native who met Lisa when both worked in Chicago. They were married in 1999 and have lived in Sheboygan for seven years. Erik was maintaining the Web site for Brandt's Cheese House in downtown Sheboygan when he observed an interesting phenomenon: The store wasn't doing well (and eventually went out of business), but its online site was booming, particularly with orders for cheese slicers. The Tancks took the idea of selling the slicers themselves and ran with it, with Lisa handling the business and marketing side and Erik managing online and accounting. They're around each other a lot, and they say they wouldn't have it any other way. "We've never been apart for more than 24 hours since we got married – and we don't want to be," said Erik, who also does desktop publishing of textbooks for a client in Chicago and is a shift supervisor at Starbucks at 14th Street and Erie Avenue. "Neither one of us could to this without the other." Although a laptop computer and a cell phone are their constant companions, they say it's worth it. "Chicago was just too crazy and fast-paced," Erik said. Reach Doug Carroll at acarroll@sheboygan-press.com and at 453-5169.