‘We never planned to buy a butcher shop in our 20’s’: Cutting into traditional butchery as a young fella

Australian Community Media

Port Kembla’s Lachy Kerr, 31, opened Cleaver & Co Quality Meats Wollongong butchery in his 20s and had to quickly learn to navigate the industry as a ‘young fella’.

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00:00 - Yeah, my name's Lockie Kerr.

00:01 I own Cleaver and Co. Quality Meats

00:03 in Gwynnville, Wollongong.

00:05 My wife and I started this business when we were 24.

00:08 Some of the challenges of starting a business

00:12 being so young is dealing with, yeah,

00:15 suppliers and stuff that you're talking to,

00:18 you're coming across a lot of people that are older than you

00:21 and, you know, sort of, maybe they do it better than you.

00:26 Just sort of getting your own wants and needs

00:27 across to those people.

00:30 We also struggled with staffing,

00:32 just finding experienced people that are also

00:36 willing to be told what to do

00:38 by someone quite a bit younger than them.

00:40 Yeah, we also struggled with just the bulk of work,

00:44 you know, opening a small business.

00:46 We knew it was gonna be a lot of work,

00:49 but it was, you know, a lot of work and then some.

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