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The supermarket deli is becoming an increasingly attractive protein destination.While delis have traditionally been venues for shoppers seeking fresh lunchmeats from service counters along with pre-sliced and pre-packaged offerings, departments
Aurora Packing is a meatpacking plant in North Aurora, Ill., that specializes in high-end beef raised in the Midwest. “As packinghouses go, we’re very small,” says Tim Sonne, plant engineer.
There has been the sense of optimism about a turnaround for the U.S. economy since the start of the year, and some evidence of that turnaround is starting to show up. For example, the National Restaurant Association Restaurant Performance Index recently topped 100 for the first time in two years.
Protein plant of the future? You may be thinking, “I can’t worry about a future plant when I am focusing on my current plant’s operations.” But without forward thinking NOW, your protein plant of the future may be a boarded-up building surrounded by a weed-infested parking lot, or an over-built mega-structure burdened with fixed overhead costs and no workforce.
The past two years have been a tough road to hoe for many in the restaurant industry - the recession has taken people out of the seats and dollars out of the cash registers for many foodservice establishments.
A recent report by the New York Times pointed out the decline in the number of slaughterhouses in the country - there were 908 slaughterhouses in 2008, down from 1,211 in 1992 - and the affect it has had on the farming community.
Anyone who makes jokes about sausages being of questionable origin hasn’t looked at a grocery store or restaurant lately. There’s no mystery meat to be found in in the current generation of sausages.
If there’s one thing we can agree on, it’s that today’s small and mid-sized business owners don’t have it easy. While the majority of business owners in the meat and poultry processing industry may be experts on the industry, running the day-to-day operations of the business is often overwhelming for many of them.
The old saying, “What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,” has a great deal of truth to it, especially as far as 2009 was concerned. For some companies, it was a great year – pretty close to business as usual, with a couple of small hiccups along the way.
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