Frank Davis

He taught me to cut meat. Althought I worked for him for only 4 years and have been cutting meat for 14 years I still stay true to the style that Frank taught me. Why? Because even though I worked with lots of great meat cutters, none of them ever could hold a candle to Franks speed and workmanship. He had the most perfect cuts I ever seen and he did it all so quickly. He would always say use both hands you have two of them why use just one? He taught me to never put down the knife when traying up meat. He would say time is money and it takes too long to keep picking up the knife. He used to like saying "I want those pennies" every time I threw a chunk of fat into the barrel with just a hint of meat on it. he would dig that fat out and carve that little sliver of meat off it and say "thats a penny I want those pennies" Only white stuff would go in the fat barrell. Today I am still dumbfounded when meat managers I work for tell me to just throw it away without getting every speck of meat off it. I just don't feel right doing that. Frank worked for A&P, Hamady Brothers, and Save A Lot, He also owned his own market in the 70s. Before he retired from Save A Lot he was working there 7 days a week every day with only christmas and easter off. I had to move to Virginia for a number of years. When I moved back to Michigan I had hoped to find Frank and thank him for teaching me to be a good meat cutter. Because before that I wasn't going any where I had no skills and no plan for my future. But thanks to Frank I now have a skill that I have made a decent living from for 14 years. I was unable to thank him though. I discovered that Frank passed away just one month before I moved back to Michigan. He was a great meat cutter and a great man.