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FEBRUARY 25-MARCH 3, 2018 WHAT'S UP! 43 "It's convenient," he explained. "It's real good food, too. I had someone tell me that you can't make food in a restaurant that tastes like you can get at home. When we put the kitchen in I told (my son) Chris that we are not going to do it if we can't make it taste like homemade. I think we've done a pretty good job at that." Family tradition Richard comes by his love the business honestly. Richard and Chris split up kitchen duties with other staff members. Richard is responsible for the entrée recipes and Chris handles the breads and desserts. In addition to Richard's staff of meat cutters, a fishmonger and deli workers and cashiers, he also employees a cook to keep the kitchen going. "Chris and I work in the kitchen with Tracy," he said. "She bakes our bread and does most of our cooking. Tracy is very good." Richard said that he learned how to cook from his mother and he is now passing some of his culinary skills to his son. He is also passing on his commitment to quality products and customer service. It doesn't matter to Richard if you are picking up a $5 Simple Supper to take home, or if you are buying $100 worth of hand cut steaks, you are going to get the same high quality customer service. "That's one of the ways we built our business," he said. "When young people come in and don't know how to cook something, we can tell them how. They know it doesn't bother us to help. We've built the business on that." Richard's Country Meat Market LOCATION: 3042 North market Ave. Fayetteville, AR. HOURS: Open Mon – Sat 9AM – 6PM Closed Sunday ONLINE: richardscountrymeatmarket.com GET SOCIAL: Facebook.com/ RichardsCountryMeatMarket ABOUT RICHARD'S COUNTRY MEAT MARKET Richard's Country Meat Market, Inc., was built in the mid-1980's and originally called Country Time Meat Shoppe. Richard McGinnis became part owner in 1993. In 1997, Country Time became a family-owned business and took a new name: Richard's Country Meat Market.