Butcher Ensuring Quality Meat For Generations

When the supermarket shelves are looking dire, it’s not the end of the world as some may think.

Cliff Ward of George Street Butcher Shoppe says your local butcher will always have a supply, and the quality is incomparable.

“We do all our production in-store – that’s the difference between supermarkets and butchers,” said Cliff.

“If you look at the price per kilo, if you’re getting more quality from a butcher, you’re way ahead.”

“A butcher is guaranteeing the quality, and they do that by processing everything in-store.”

The team at George Street Butcher Shoppe pride themselves in processing their huge range of meat products in-store, whether that be smoking their own ham and bacon, rolling and hand-stitching their own roasts or making beer sticks, kabana and sausages the old-fashioned way.

“We make a proper sausage manually, with no big machines to do it for us, and do it all the old way, in the hog skin and hand linked,” said Cliff.

“That’s where you get your quality, from processing in-store as well as buying quality product.

“We can select our quality product; we shop around through wholesalers and buy what we think is the best product for the consumer.”

George Street Butcher Shoppe also produces their own beef through a property at Bloomsbury.

Cliff says small business is essential in the local economy and has first-year apprentice Zane on board, ensuring the future of the butcher industry.

“If there’s no young people coming on and doing trades, then there’s no future,” he said.

“If you shop locally, you’re guaranteeing a future, so the next generation has a fresh supply of meat.”

Explore the huge range of meat and smallgoods at George Street Butcher Shoppe located at 26 George St, Mackay.

First-year apprentice Zane is the future of the butcher industry

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