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What are your typical sales numbers for a week/staffing?
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My store( one of a giant midwestern chain) typically does 100,000 or more a week between meat and processed meat. Yet they staff us like a 50,000 or less department. Morning help is gone by 3:00 and they leave me with only one counter person and myself (a cutter) after that. Do your stores run you that thi...
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Steak and Eggs Is Making a Comback!
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Because it is a holiday weekend this morning my wife and I after church went out to have breakfast in one of our towns favorite breakfast restaurants. We both ordered steak and eggs and it was delicious. Steak, eggs, home-fries good toasted bread and hot coffee. The true All American meal however, mos...
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Why We Celbrate Memorial Day
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Welcome to Memorial Day weekend. You probably have some big plans coming up, but might be a little unsure as to why we celebrate Memorial Day in the first place. And, that's OK. With Veterans Day and Labor Day also in the mix, these holidays often get confused, especially with people who haven't served...
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Will costco put you into an apprenticeship if you get hired as a meat cutter
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Ive been working as a meat clerk for a little over a year now and was looking into potentially becoming a meat cutter part time at my costco. I would have to be certified to work there and i didnt know if they train people when they hire them like at my current job.
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Its Fishing Season Lets Sell That Liquid Purge
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Everybody around here is going up on Lake Thurman for those big stripers . This year I am going to take along some boxed-beef purge that I bought locally to use a chum. -- Edited by Coalcracker on Thursday 26th of May 2016 08:31:55 PM
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Need Help with a yield test
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I am kind of hoping you or someone here might be able to help me. I was a meat manager at Pathmark before they closed down. I got hired to run a small independent grocery stores meat department. In any case, it's being run by people who either don't understand the supermarket business or only have exper...
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A Tribute to a great man and meat cutter
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http://blog.meatcuttersclub.org/bill-taylor-2/
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admin query
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http://www.meatcuttersclub.org/41-days-dry-aging-a-beef-head-loin/
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These May Sale Offers are too good to pass up!
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Hi everyone! We want to be sure you know that we've got some really great deals going on in May! Some of these offers are too good to pass up! Here's a few examples— From our At-A-Glance sale flyer: • 20 deals for only $20 each! Choose from plastic knife holder, camo pocket knife, two-stage Diamond-Hone s...
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SWEET Pic.
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How would you like to cut this close to customers??
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For you old heads
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How many you old heads remember cutting lamb and pork like this. especially at 6 to 6:23 on the time line I use to have to cut 6 to 8 lambs a week like this in the 60's for A&P. every bit was cut by knife and hand saw
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shelf life
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New to this site I was going through past posts and read something about shelf life of meat in cryovac bags. Not sure if it is of interest but there is plenty of chilled beef coming into the USA from Australia with a 12 week guarantee. Some guys even push it over 100 days, lamb too. I am curious why the USA...
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Nice hanging display
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Profit in sale items?
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Ok so today management calls me to the office to discuss product availability. So he tells me I need to back our ad better by not running out, now take into mind I only ran out the last day of the sale. My thing is this, with sale items you dont make any money I know it is with the hope they buy other things tha...
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Previously frozen "fresh fish" counters.
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I'd like to hear from apcowboy, coalcracker,fdarn, and others on their take on full service seafood displays stocked mostly with previously frozen fish fillets. I've dealt with Inland and Monterrey seafood distributors and they deliver about 25% of our daily fish inventory. The rest is delivere...
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Butcher week
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Found this on the net today. Pictures first then video after. -- Edited by 55plymouth on Wednesday 27th of April 2016 10:18:04 AM
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Dispatch from the Pig Zone
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From Denver friend chef butcher... Dispatch from the Pig Zone– Cochon 555 Vail | Don't Tell Chef http://donttellchef.com/2013/03/18/dispatch-from-the-pig-zone-cochon-555-vail/ Mark M DeNittis
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Curved Knive for old old old slicer
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Not sure this is the right board for this question, and if it is not, I apologize in advance. I've restored an old 1920 era American Slicing Machine Co slicer, Scout model. Everything works great, but it really needs a new blade, as the original has a 2" crack in it, from the edge to the center. Also, t...
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General interest in profit around the country.
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I was wondering what everyone is averaging in gross profit percentage in their markets. Please be honest no matter good or bad. I myself recently had a 21%, but management is insisting on a 30%. Just would like to know what everyone else is getting because i find a 30% is a little unreasonable with the co...
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