03/11/2026
🥩 The Butcher Report
We are back! Welcome back to this week’s edition of the Butcher Report, and boy do we have some catching up to do!!
New rig?? Nah… it’s just Drive Your Tractor to School Day 🚜
A couple weeks ago was National FFA Week, and some of our younger employees (you know… the really cool ones) got to drive their tractors to school. We’re pretty sure there may or may not be a quiet competition happening over which FFA chapter is the best… and honestly, we’re just here for the tractor parking lot lineup 😅
Customer Service Do’s and Don’ts 😅
Let’s just say some of our front counter crew recently received a friendly refresher course…
DO: Greet everyone with a friendly hello and a smile.
DON’T: Say, “Sorry, we’re a vegan meat shop today… try again later.” 😅
DO: Ask customers how their day is going.
DON’T: Say “We don’t have your meat,” or “I don’t know where your order is.”
(P.S. It’s almost always in the freezer… possibly even the cooler.)
DO: Say “Let me go find that for you” or “Let me check real quick.”
DON’T: Look at them like they just ordered sushi at a butcher shop and say, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” 😅
Internet Espionage 💻
We’re pretty sure the internet heard about our rough week last week and decided to give us an extended weekend… by completely shutting down. 🤦🏼♀️
Our internet system decided to block all work-related services— cash registers, emails, time clocks, phones… basically the entire operation except the part where we still had to stand there and figure it out and cut meat.
We’re fairly certain our front office lady may or may not have submitted a special request for a long weekend after the week she had…. but little did she know she’d be the one coming in to fix it. 😂
We managed to work around it after a couple IT calls and a whole lot of “I need a margarita” comments.
Moral of the story:
The meat was cut, the chaos was managed, and the internet eventually cooperated… but if it happens again this week or next we might all be getting an invite for margaritas 🍹 instead of cutting meat 🥩