About This Role
This short-term, project-based consulting engagement is for an experienced butchery operations consultant to provide an operational review for an upscale butcher-driven food concept in development. The consultant will review proposed layouts, equipment, product assortment, and production processes before architectural plans are finalized.
Responsibilities
- Review and provide recommendations on the proposed butcher shop layout and overall workflow
- Evaluate receiving, refrigeration, storage, fabrication, production, packaging, and retail display areas
- Advise on equipment selection, sizing, and placement, including fabrication tables, grinders, mixers, band saws, sausage equipment, sinks, racks, scales, and packaging equipment
- Review production flow, sanitation, food safety, and operational efficiencies
- Provide recommendations on the proposed retail meat assortment and house-made/value-added products
- Evaluate sausage, grinding, fabrication, and other production requirements
- Advise on whole-animal and/or primal utilization, yields, trim utilization, and waste
- Provide input on integration and cross-utilization between the butcher operation and an adjacent foodservice kitchen
- Identify operational considerations to be incorporated into architectural and permit plans
Requirements
- Significant hands-on experience in professional and whole animal butchery and meat production
- Understanding of how a butcher shop needs to function operationally, beyond strong meat-cutting skills
- Ability to identify issues related to workflow, equipment placement, refrigeration, storage, sanitation, production, and movement of product through the facility
Nice to have:
- Experience with butcher shop design, openings, or facility planning
Relevant experience may include:
- Retail butcher shop operations
- Whole-animal butchery and carcass breakdown
- Beef, pork, lamb, and poultry fabrication
- Sausage and value-added meat production
- Grinding and portion-controlled production
- Meat processing equipment
- Food safety, sanitation, and HACCP
- Yield and food-cost management
- Butcher shop or meat-processing facility design
- New butcher shop openings
Application Process
- Submit a resume or professional background
- Include a brief description of relevant experience in butcher shop operations, meat processing, facility planning, or butcher shop openings
About the Company
A new, upscale butcher-driven food concept is currently in the architectural and pre-permitting phase of development.