I guess at $1.49 lb there will be no problem getting rid of everything no matter what happens the day(s) before.
I kind of like grinding, especially if the grinder is in the cooler. I like being alone in there. I'll stack the load too. I'd like my own little block in the cooler too. I'll have a bottle of water and 3 candy bars and won't come out for anything unless I drink too much water. Don't tell me to do it in the bone barrel LOL
I guess at $1.49 lb there will be no problem getting rid of everything no matter what happens the day(s) before.
I kind of like grinding, especially if the grinder is in the cooler. I like being alone in there. I'll stack the load too. I'd like my own little block in the cooler too. I'll have a bottle of water and 3 candy bars and won't come out for anything unless I drink too much water. Don't tell me to do it in the bone barrel LOL
We have to use box trim to keep up with burger in my store
We do not generate the trim nessecary for our grind needs
This week I am order 100 60lb cases and I hope I make it to the end without having to give out rain checks
(I had 70 cases this last week and we gave 40 rain checks)
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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
no re grind allowed and no tube grind we sell between 400-500 lbs of grind a day and produce about half of that in shop trim
we use cow knuckles for ground round and box chuck trim to supplement our shop trim for ground chuck we also do pork, veal, lamb, natural ground beef, and grass fed ground beef
add to that 60-100lbs of gourmet burgers every day
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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
all of it into 4D trays and then hand wrapped Had the grocery manager wrapping them last week
Good lord man - we do about 5-600 pounds a day, with a double hopper and an automatic wrapper. Can't imagine doing 10 times that much, with hand wrapping!
They were calling all day today asking if we are doing it again tomorrow I have 140 cases of beef chuck trim in my cooler I think I may not have enough
I only have a single hopper grinder All if it goes through twice before being trayed on the third time through
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!
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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
As I left for the day a little after 2pm we had ground 72 cases already with 7 hours left to do in the day I am betting on selling 120 of the 140 I had on hand
I had to devote 3 people to the process 1 of my cutters grinding 1 of my cutters cutting the box trim to fit the grinder 1 wrapper to wrap and put it out
That left me to cut all the meat, tray the chicken, wait on all the full service customers
I am beginning to hate Wednesdays
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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
when we have that sale at 1.49 ground chuck we put it in 10 lb bags and flys out of there.. i still have people coming in every day asking for it long after the sale ended. thats alot of work since you have to try and wrap them all. i'd take the bags over the trays and advertise it for 10lbs. but i know the company decides this stuff. i always put the bags right back into the boxes the clods came out of( we use clods for this) its always a very popular sale,. i never run out and do it by myself,. don't think i could handle it alone if i had to use trays and wrap them though.
For those of interested My store went through 115 cases this week 24000lbs as a 9 store company these peoples freezer have to be full I hope
We do it again this Wednesday and follow up on Thursday with a rocking one day meat sale boneless pork loins for $1.99lb pork butts, new yorks, ribeyes, hanger steaks, stew beef, rump roast, all chicken
overtime week!!!!
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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
WOW Busy market! Our chain did that same promotion but not that good of a a bring in like 1.49lb. Each dept had a day, they took it away I really liked Milk day we had 99cent half gallons, and in our area thats a great deal on milk.
