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FemaleCutter96


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I knew at one time this was a topic. But had to tell this one. Last week we were running out our Prime natural beef due to the heat we are getting only some of what we ordered. We happen to have alot of mock tenders so one of the cutters decided to put some roasts in and beside it a tray of steaks. We didnt have the steaks marked we were using the roast number and pricing it the same. Anyway one of our rookies I guess sold some as prime tenderloin to a lady at 25.99 a pound!! The meat cutter on duty had to chase the customer down and get it back from her. The only way he knew he told the cutter we need more fo those prime tenderloins cut for the case. Could have been a bad a thing but I still had to chuckle.



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so he called a mock tender a primie tenderloin? wow. now thats some profit.

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Lol I wonder how many old meat guy would have let the lady leave with them

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thats what i was gonna say...lots of them would

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Lol I seen young guys wrap eye round as tenderloin.....we usually caught it though......

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It used to be regular to see a mock thrown in with a true tenderloin. Especially if you slapped a "Reduced for quick sale" sticker on it. Most of those markets aren't around anymore. I wonder why?

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you mean a mock from the front quarter? With some grizzle running through it? Yet, besides that , it looks like a tenderloin. I can imagine some of the tricks cutters have pulled. I work with a guy who has been a butcher for 35 years and he cuts the worst tenderloin ever. He never removes the silver skin. makes me cringe. had two customers complain so far in a month. I don't want to say anything to him because he's the 2'nd man and I'm the 3rd. He's never had formal training and I have. I consider him a backyard butcher. I'll just wait for him to retire. We both make near 30$ an hour. My manager is not even a butcher but a meat wrapper that was put into that position and makes good coin. I rambled on. enough.

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ko_kanee12 wrote:

you mean a mock from the front quarter? With some grizzle running through it? Yet, besides that , it looks like a tenderloin. I can imagine some of the tricks cutters have pulled. I work with a guy who has been a butcher for 35 years and he cuts the worst tenderloin ever. He never removes the silver skin. makes me cringe. had two customers complain so far in a month. I don't want to say anything to him because he's the 2'nd man and I'm the 3rd. He's never had formal training and I have. I consider him a backyard butcher. I'll just wait for him to retire. We both make near 30$ an hour. My manager is not even a butcher but a meat wrapper that was put into that position and makes good coin. I rambled on. enough.

 Say something to the 1st cutter. He probably already knows, but it won't hurt. Ask for weekly numbers.



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i heard at least one TGI Fridays in viriginia uses the mock tender and calls it a filet mignon in the menu. A meat cutter i used to work with asked a cook there what it really was because he knew it wasn't a tenderloin so if you go to a TGI Fridays and get a filet mignon check it out carefully.

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your manager is a wrapper? and your second and third make near 30 bucks an hour?thats crazy... where in canada you work?

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Yeah my manager when I was at Baeslers was a wrapper/lunchmeat girl.

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I work at a store before they made the app earl manager the meat manager....I though that was pretty messed up that dep took. Nose dive,,llol

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I had a meatwrapper in Little Rock that was worth every dime I paid her (a little less than my 2nd man). Couldn't cut everything, but enough to where we weren't bothered when someone needed a special order. She'd kick on the saw and cut a ham, bust out a roast, or finesse a filet with the best of us while maintaining the best counter I've ever seen. I believe she could definitely run a great market, but the over-all meat cutting experience is all she lacked....would've liked to see her dig a little deeper in that part of it, but she had no interest in making more money. I miss her...specially when I work with a wrapper that goes and kicks it in the bakery till 4 or 5 racks build up. I would like it wrapped as soon as possible...I'm cutting it for a reason!

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specially when I work with a wrapper that goes and kicks it in the bakery till 4 or 5 racks build up. I would like it wrapped as soon as possible...I'm cutting it for a reason!

Some times you have to embarrass a meat wrapper, when I had one that like to wander around, I use to get on the PA system and hollar, IF THE MEAT WRAPPER IS IN THE STORE, YOU ARE NEEDED IN THE MARKET NOW !!  OR,   ATTENTION SHOPPERS WE ARE TAKING APPS FOR A MEAT WRAPPERS POSITION IN OUR MARKET.  I liked this one to, WILL THE STORE MANGER PLEASE SEND THE MEAT WRAPPER TO THE MARKET WHEN YOU THROUGH WITH HER.

If that don't work then I guess this one is best,  next time you wander off, JUST wander on home !!!



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the meat wrapper jeff would be in the room after wandering around and I would turn to jerry and say can you call jeff and see if he wants to come to work today

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I made a mistake one time. Our meat wrapper was fired for stealing, her name was Claudia. Well Jason, one of our cutters, was filling in as a wrapper. He said he had to place a supply order and went upstairs. He was gone about half an hour, and we were starting to get a few wraps built up. I knew he was probably up front bsing with his wife, because honestly it takes about 5 minutes toget onthephone and say I need this this and this. So I got on the intercom, "Claudia back to the meat shop, claudia back to the meat shop." Needless to say after a trip upstairs to talk to the owner I learned my lesson. Some how it got misconstrued, and his wife thought I meant he was a thief... His wife was a you know what. Long story short I didn't use the intercom for jokes much more.

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Our thing when the wrapper gets behind or wanders when they come back we tell them when you get all this wrapped go on ahead and put it in the heat and eat section! They love that one. One of our wrappers I told him he was going to be the offical heat and eat manager if he got any slower.

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I had a wrapper about 3 yrs ago that I hired to help me, because the manager had a year off for medical reasons. She came to work the first day and every once in a while, she wasn't in the cutting room. I look around and see her looking through the window in the back door. She'd come in just a shivering. 'Its cold' she said. 50 degrees is not cold. She lasted a week .

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Oh yea! I forgot! One of our specials that our meat super put in the ad this week are Bacon wrapped beef filets for $3.99lb. Wants us to use eye of rounds for them. I just don't see that. To me it would be really tough. What else could I use in place of Eyes?

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eye of round isn't going to fool anyone who is looking for a filet. best i can think is mock tender. maybe completely clean off a clod and cut it out of the seams and use that.

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not what i wanted to see first thing in the morning, at least he could of cleaned the end up. apprentices...................



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thats not very pretty. does he have to cut those with a saw? looks like it was cut with a boning saw with all that dust on it. i actually got a special order to take care of friday.. i got open a whole round season the inside and the outside then STITCH the seam back together. still trying to figure out how i am going to do that

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the only reason he cut it like this is he DID NOT need a rump roast, or so my boss said.

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irish squirrel wrote:

Oh yea! I forgot! One of our specials that our meat super put in the ad this week are Bacon wrapped beef filets for $3.99lb. Wants us to use eye of rounds for them. I just don't see that. To me it would be really tough. What else could I use in place of Eyes?

Depending on your cost I'd use Tip cap. It will still cook nicely.

 

 



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irish squirrel wrote:

Oh yea! I forgot! One of our specials that our meat super put in the ad this week are Bacon wrapped beef filets for $3.99lb. Wants us to use eye of rounds for them. I just don't see that. To me it would be really tough. What else could I use in place of Eyes?

 unless he is saying bacon wrapped eye of round we have a little law in the states called truth in advertising

It prohibits bait and switch tactics and misrepresentation of ad items. Bacon wrapped fillets means Bacon wrapped Fillets NOT bacon wrapped eye of round

 

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