There is another post about the worst job in the department but what is your favorite?
I like to cut, and help set up our full service counter and the seafood counter once in a while. Being the manager i dont get to do this often because of other responsibilities in the department.
I love setting up the full service counter, It seems thats when I get to be creative and have some of my own ideas. Especally the holidays, love to deck it all out.
i put my earbuds in, out the music on and cut to my hearts delight. i used to enjoy making sausage and being creative withe service case, but those days are gone.
Lets see, my favorite job in the meat dept is........well, it sure ain't doin inventory. I believe I have to say being a part time PR man. Love to talk to the customers. Also making my homemade chicken salad.
I like dealing with the vendors, especially the beer guys. We have a lot in common! Customers are hit and miss. I do enjoy wrapping on a slow day, because I'll go into a trance like state and day dream.
my favorite part of the job is the end of the day I take a few minutes to admire the beauty of my nice fresh, full meat case. It gives me alot of satisfaction. I also feel alot of pride when i come in the morning and that case is about empty and all the racks in the cooler are empty too. it tells me the liked the meat and they bought it.
I like helping the attractive women. That's my favorite "job". After that, I really like breaking beef. We get one a week. I get to do it once in a while.
The morning after an extremely busy night. The challenge of re filling the wiped out cases with freshly cut product, by processing every item, top to bottom on my production planner.
i would love to break beef, but no shops around here do it anymore or at all. there are a few family owned processors but you gotta be family to get in with them. besides, i have a house, medical bills and a wife to support. where i am at is highest paid for grocery stores. if i could i would open my own shop and have at it.
My favorite job is telling the customer "Thank You" when they come back and tell you how wonderful you are and how much they enjoy shopping my meat dept.
Setting up the full service case making sausage (I now offer 20 kinds daily) helping all the pretty ladies with cooking advice (they flirt I flirt it's all good)
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Joe Parajecki
Operations Manager/ Partner
Kettle Range Meat Company, Milwaukee WI
Member Meat Cutter Hall of Fame and The Butcher's Guild
