Jason Mauck

and uh basically held on to all the local restaurants but covid happened and all the restaurants were closed so he was old and he wanted out so we bought it for like next to nothing and i was pretty ambitious i wanted to kind of create a slaughterhouse constellation stars for farmers to connect farmers to consumers and use the restaurant business as a node to gain economies of scale to build the infrastructure in place and the and the connections to make that

and uh basically held on to all the local restaurants but covid happened and all the restaurants were closed so he was old and he wanted out so we bought it for like next to nothing and i was pretty ambitious i wanted to kind of create a slaughterhouse constellation stars for farmers to connect farmers to consumers and use the restaurant business as a node to gain economies of scale to build the infrastructure in place and the and the connections to make that

and uh basically held on to all the local restaurants but covid happened and all the restaurants were closed so he was old and he wanted out so we bought it for like next to nothing and i was pretty ambitious i wanted to kind of create a slaughterhouse constellation stars for farmers to connect farmers to consumers and use the restaurant business as a node to gain economies of scale to build the infrastructure in place and the and the connections to make that

a reality for farmers and I thought I could leverage my social media to to help facilitate brands for people because you know if you if you make a good brand and you're connecting people across state a lot of it's going to come where you got to distribute that we made a run we were at it for three years but we were a USDA facility so we had an office there.

a reality for farmers and I thought I could leverage my social media to to help facilitate brands for people because you know if you if you make a good brand and you're connecting people across state a lot of it's going to come where you got to distribute that we made a run we were at it for three years but we were a USDA facility so we had an office there.

a reality for farmers and I thought I could leverage my social media to to help facilitate brands for people because you know if you if you make a good brand and you're connecting people across state a lot of it's going to come where you got to distribute that we made a run we were at it for three years but we were a USDA facility so we had an office there.

And if, you know, whenever I thought I had money in the bank account, the, you know, the guy would come out and say, Hey, you need to spend a hundred thousand fixing this or we'll shut you down. You know, it was just like being married to a gold digging. It was tough aside from the, uh, from the personnel there.

And if, you know, whenever I thought I had money in the bank account, the, you know, the guy would come out and say, Hey, you need to spend a hundred thousand fixing this or we'll shut you down. You know, it was just like being married to a gold digging. It was tough aside from the, uh, from the personnel there.

And if, you know, whenever I thought I had money in the bank account, the, you know, the guy would come out and say, Hey, you need to spend a hundred thousand fixing this or we'll shut you down. You know, it was just like being married to a gold digging. It was tough aside from the, uh, from the personnel there.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah. Once the people started doing it, it was intimidating at first. That was the biggest hurdle is they had to be aware. They had to know how it worked. So you were kind of in your own fishbowl, and you needed to make your fishbowl bigger of awareness. But we called it the automated farmer's market, and people would order online. We would put it in the machine.

Yeah. Once the people started doing it, it was intimidating at first. That was the biggest hurdle is they had to be aware. They had to know how it worked. So you were kind of in your own fishbowl, and you needed to make your fishbowl bigger of awareness. But we called it the automated farmer's market, and people would order online. We would put it in the machine.

Yeah. Once the people started doing it, it was intimidating at first. That was the biggest hurdle is they had to be aware. They had to know how it worked. So you were kind of in your own fishbowl, and you needed to make your fishbowl bigger of awareness. But we called it the automated farmer's market, and people would order online. We would put it in the machine.

The machine would actually send a QR code via text and email to the consumer. And we were moving over 10 orders a day. Our average order was $80. So it was decent revenue, but it was a spoke of a much bigger business. And the much bigger business was more into wholesale with smaller margins and scale. And it's just hard to get the transactions of the Meijer and the Walmart.

The machine would actually send a QR code via text and email to the consumer. And we were moving over 10 orders a day. Our average order was $80. So it was decent revenue, but it was a spoke of a much bigger business. And the much bigger business was more into wholesale with smaller margins and scale. And it's just hard to get the transactions of the Meijer and the Walmart.

The machine would actually send a QR code via text and email to the consumer. And we were moving over 10 orders a day. Our average order was $80. So it was decent revenue, but it was a spoke of a much bigger business. And the much bigger business was more into wholesale with smaller margins and scale. And it's just hard to get the transactions of the Meijer and the Walmart.

If you had 10% of their meat transactions, you would have it made.

If you had 10% of their meat transactions, you would have it made.