Patterson's Butchers: Sheffield butcher talks about his new found fame on Facebook for his crazy hats

The Star, Sheffield

Sheffield butcher talks about his new found fame on Facebook for his crazy hats

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00:00Hi, I'm Daz, the owner of Patterson's Butchers in Sheffield.

00:03Fabulous, and we are here today because we have spotted your Facebook page, and you've

00:08been getting a lot of followers. Could you tell us a little bit about your videos that

00:13you've been doing?

00:14Yeah, it started off as a joke. One of my friend's daughters called me that name that

00:19you'll see on my Facebook page, which we're not allowed to say on here. And it started

00:23as a joke and it just took off, so I thought I'd try it on Facebook one day. I didn't know

00:27if it was a bit too offensive, but it turns out it weren't. And then because of that,

00:31we started getting loads of people watching us Daz videos and following us.

00:35Amazing, so for those that haven't watched your videos yet, you're basically, you're

00:39telling everyone about what you've got in store, and you're wearing great hats. Could

00:45you show us a few of your favourite hats?

00:47Well, obviously we've got this one. This one's had a sore throat, he's a little horse. We've

00:54got a turkey. Turkey's always popular. Nice turkey at Christmas. I'm not sure of the one

01:00that's got my name on it, but I'm sure if you look at my page you'll find it. We've

01:04got a shark, which we like. We like the shark. The shark's good. That's the one. And we've

01:09got Jester's hat, which I love this one. It's one of my favourites. Love Jester's hat, because

01:15I'm a bit of a clown sometimes, so it's appropriate.

01:18Amazing. How many hats have you got in your collection?

01:21Must be about 150 now. Must be. If anybody wants to send any more, you're welcome to send them in.

01:27Where do you keep them all? Do they all live in the back?

01:30Yeah, they're everywhere. It's a shop, to be honest. I need a bigger shop just for hats.

01:34So yeah, we've got black bags and boxes full of bags. People keep sending them in, which

01:39is very kind of them.

01:41That's brilliant.

01:42Because during Covid, hats had a very hard time of it, and I think people neglected them

01:46a lot, so I'm trying to help hats out going forward.

01:49Well, we all need more people like you around.

01:54And then going back to Facebook, you've got 18,000 followers. How does that feel? I mean,

02:01that's quite famous.

02:03I wouldn't say famous, but yeah, it's nice that people like what we're doing, and hopefully

02:08the likers meet as well. It's not just purely to watch us laugh kind of thing, but yeah,

02:14it's a nice feeling to have built it up from nothing up to knocking on to 19,000 now, so

02:20hopefully hit that magic 20 one day.

02:23Yes, hopefully. Maybe even this year as you're celebrating 20 years.

02:26Yes, yeah, that'd be good.

02:27That'd be riveting.

02:2820,000 for 20 years, that'd be good.

02:30Yeah?

02:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:32Oh, great. And in terms of the videos, what sort of reaction have you had from them? Are

02:43you seeing an increase in sales, or is it just a lot of interaction?

02:47We get a lot of interaction. We have had increased sales through it, yeah, if we put a post on

02:52Facebook with a special offer on, or we do a lot of packs, especially with summer coming

02:56up. We do get a lot of business from Facebook, yeah, it's good for that. But it's not just

03:01about that. We like a laugh and a joke, so we thought we'd just do it on camera, and

03:07hopefully people are shocked with us, but if they don't, at least they're having a laugh.

03:10Yeah, definitely. And you've recently started doing international, no, national delivery.

03:16Yeah, www.patsandbutchers.co.uk, got to get a plug in. Yeah, with Nationwide Delivery

03:22is available now. It's only starting slow, so we're adding stuff to it all the time,

03:26but hopefully we'll be able to get to you wherever you are in country.

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