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S M A L L B U S I N E S S M AT T E R S

NEW DICER

We're not just talking a sub shop here, but
rather prepared gourmet meals presented in
transparent sealed top trays ready-to-eat or
take home to pop a few holes in the top and
microwave in minutes.
The enterprising shop offers Carol's Kitchen,
named after an employee who passed away.
The cavalcade of selections is remarkable,
and purchases help a fundraising program for
local charities and culinary scholarships in the
community of 10,500 residents.
Outdoor smokehouses offer enticement as
well and indoors they sell barbecue and grilling
equipment ranging from grills and wood pellet
cookers, and their own wood pellets too.
Barbecue supplies are also on display, with
everything from aprons and cooking utensils to
propane gas.
Main Street Meat Co. provides a vast
selection of foods that can be picked up for
catering events, with a range from single
serving to multi-serving sizes. You name it, they
probably have it.
Deer processing at the new shop has grown
from about 40 a year at the start to nearly 500
a year currently. The company provides a nice
selection of services from cutting game animals
to sausage and other value-added meats.
King believes strongly in working with
good equipment and has added a pair of
smokehouses, a bowl chopper, vacuum
stuffers, tray sealing machine and most
recently a slicing machine.
"With the slicing system we brought in,
we get great consistency and have to use less
labor," he points out. "When we get wholesale
orders we are ready to go, fill it right now, and
our added cold storage helps round out our
capabilities to fill orders quickly and on time."
So what lies around the corner for the King
family? King believes a rollstock machine is
in the future and feels that in three or four
years they might be looking for one or two
additional retail stores that will operate under
their name and will be supplied by their main
processing plant.
While Main Street Meats has a manifold
selection of products, services and flavors,
customers merely seeking a simple pork chop
can get it there. But they should make sure
they ask for the Iowa Chop - center cut, rib on
a stick, barbecue, balsamic, chipotle cinnamon
or butterfly. Any questions?

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