They serve meat ball lunch. But this week is the last week to be served them.
The café owner and we are friends. And a butcher is also our common friend.
The butcher who is over 70 retired last month. And the meat balls are the last meat which were sold by the butcher.
The butcher was very small shop. However he survived. The reason was , probably that he had a good skill, and he dealt with special beef.
Even though there are many small butchers, but most of them don't deal with beef, because they can't earn enough profit. Most of customers buy beef at a big meat shop, or department store.
Though some small butcher still deal with beef, but usually they sell only beef for stake.
However the butcher dealt with most of all parts of beef, and he has special customers.
But his wife and he couldn't be against his age.
2 comments:
たいへん!
Here in the United States, small butchers have been disappearing for years.
Some markets have a butcher where you can special order things, and there are large butchers in bigger cities, but nowadays most people get all of their meat from the supermarket. I was born in a small town of fewer than 2,000 people; when my parents were young there was a butcher there, but when I was growing up we had no butcher shop at all.
It's a shame that there was no one to take over the business. Many smaller shops like that have, unfortunately, been put out of business by big stores.
Thanks for your comments, and I'm really happy that you started them with Japanese phrase. I agree with you. Keeping family business is very hard, however, I like to talk with them casually, so I am eeaaly sad our families buchter closed his business.
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