2021 A New Year – A Time for New Ideas
2021 A New Year – A Time for New Ideas…
Hopefully, we will never experience another year like 2020 with its many difficulties for everyone. Hopefully, 2021 will be a year full of – just that – hope.
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With thanks from the team at Lucas…
It’s certainly been a very tough year for everyone, but we wanted to take this opportunity to say a special thanks to all our customers in the butchery trade, who have made an amazing contribution throughout 2020.
Make Christmas 2020 a Cracker with Lucas
This year, more than ever before, it will be important for butchers to stand out from the high street crowd and to come up with some cracking creative ideas that will make a stay-at-home Christmas much more interesting and enjoyable for your customers.
Halloween at Home and Bonfires in the Back Garden? Looks fine with Lucas!
Halloween and Bonfire Night will certainly be completely different this year, with more and more households under limited lockdown and customers opting to stay indoors for perhaps the first time. This presents you, the butcher, with some great opportunities to make extra sales by catering for mini-events held indoors, or in the garden.
Keep Looking Forward with Lucas Kitchen
The resurgence in the fortunes of the family butcher in recent months has been most welcome, uplifting and wonderful to see. In some ways, it’s not surprising, as butchers have been an integral part of local communities for decades, but somehow their role had been overlooked and was, in some parts, diminishing.
Side Dishes from the Lucas Kitchen
Remember we recently put together our Menu of ideas for producing foods that your customers can enjoy at home? Within the Menu, we included a section on Side Dishes and we’ve been giving some further thought to this. We reckon that your Side Dishes don’t need to be on the side-lines, they could easily become the Main Event!
Lucas Coaters – We’ve Got You Covered!
We’ve said it before, but it’s really important to keep your counter display and if your customers are ordering online – your website – looking fresh and interesting…
Eat Out at Home – with the Lucas Menu
There’s little doubt that it will be a long time before most people are ready to go back to eating out at cafes, restaurants, bars and pubs, (ah, remember those places?), which means that butchers have an opportunity to go beyond supplying simple meats: Here’s the ideal time to offer meats and ready meals that are similar to those that customers would normally enjoy when they’re eating out.
Get Creative with the Lucas Kitchen
Whilst it looks like life may start to get back to “normal” – whatever that looks like – in the foreseeable future, there’s no doubt that this is going to take some time. This is especially the case when it comes to people’s being able to eat out. So, we thought it might be beneficial at this juncture to have a look at how retail butchers can offer their customers restaurant-type meals that can be prepared at home.
Feed ALL the Family with Lucas
One of our team members has a family of five people: Two adults and three children. Three of the family members are out and out carnivores, one is a vegetarian and one a “flexitarian”. “Flexitarian?” I hear you ask…