She works hard to drum up business for Weber to make sure he stays around. I've learned to talk with people when I'm cutting the meat and give them tips on how to prepare it. I want them to have a good experience with it. He even offers cooking classes every other month except in the summer. Nationally, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says, there are approximately 216,000 butchers and meat cutters in grocery stores.
Stores are hard-pressed to find help, so they've gone from cutting meat to slicing meat.
You find pre-cut meat in most supermarkets. The labor statistics bureau says most red meat now arrives at grocery stores partially cut. But there's not a lot of money in it and people don't stay with it. There probably aren't five people in town who can still do that. He specializes in custom cutting.