PAINT TWP. – For greater than 60 years the Pacula household has been making the identical merchandise at Winesburg Meats.
Summer season sausage and different snack meats like beef jerky and beef sticks, together with Winesburg Wieners, steak, bratwurst, a full line of deli meats and cheeses, and different recent beef and pork merchandise, are produced each day since 1959.
For the previous 5 years, Winesburg Meats has been transitioning to the third technology as brothers Taras and Anton Pacula take over, with the useful steerage of their father Marion, who’s semi-retired.
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“The gear and expertise might have modified over our three generations, however most of the recipes are nonetheless very near our grandpa’s originals,” stated Anton Pacula. “There are nonetheless no synthetic preservatives or soy, and our merchandise are gluten free.
“The largest change can be within the pre-packaged gadgets,” he added. “We have gone to hoover packaging, which insures the best high quality product.”
Vacuum packaging permits guests to retailer their purchases in a cooler and permits them to get the merchandise house safely as they spend time visiting Amish Nation. It’s extra environment friendly than the previous white butcher paper.
“Buyer suggestions has been actually nice so far as that goes,” Anton stated.
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The shop, at 2181 U.S. Route 62, subsequent to Winesburg Elementary Faculty, has an entire new look, each inside and outside.
“I am very pleased that we’re nonetheless going sturdy into the third technology. They’re nonetheless utilizing the previous world recipes handed down from my dad,” Marion stated. “That is why our buyer base love our product. They like the standard.”
The Pacula brothers purchased the enterprise in 2016 and lately renovated, redoing the ground, and updating {the electrical} system. Additionally they added some new show instances to make issues simpler for purchasers to serve themselves.
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Anton stated the deliberate venture was purported to take three weeks and it wound up taking three months, as contractors bumped into totally different challenges at each flip. The contractors have been all native companies who’re common prospects of Winesburg Meats.
Anton defined by shifting some issues round and including new show instances, they have been capable of make higher use of the prevailing house. Clients now have higher entry to the number of merchandise on show.
“Clients like the benefit of grabbing issues themselves,” Anton stated. “One of many feedback we hear quite a bit is folks saying they did not know we’ve this explicit merchandise or that, as a result of we used to have 100 various things in a single little meat case. Now we’ve issues situated in numerous shows of their personal space, their very own house.”
Winesburg Meats has presence on social media
Apart from the busy retailer on Route 62, Winesburg Meats has an on-sight manufacturing facility full with a smokehouse the place they make their award-winning merchandise.
They do plenty of wholesale of their summer time sausage, which is distributed all through the nation, together with Winesburg wieners and different tasty treats. They’ve lately added a brand new Cajun-style summer time sausage, which will likely be popping out this month.
Winesburg Meats additionally presents their merchandise on-line at their web site, winesburg-meats.com.
“We provided a $50 reward card for one promotion and had virtually 27,000 hits, only for one reward card,” Taras stated. “Our web site will get hundreds of hits month-to-month. Social media is a priceless instrument for us.”
Pacula household historical past
Marion Pacula is pleased to see his sons taking the enterprise to the following degree. He has labored for almost 60 years on the enterprise began by his father, Walter, in 1959. Walter and Katherina Pacula emigrated to Ohio from the Ukraine within the Nineteen Fifties.
Walter labored at Sugardale Meats in Canton earlier than beginning his personal meat retailer in Winesburg.
“They grew up within the household enterprise. They have been working right here since they have been in all probability 10 years previous, similar to I did,” Marion stated. “I am very snug watching them do their factor. They’ve already expanded the enterprise and so they’re doing fairly nicely.”
The Paculas level out that rising meat costs have impacted their enterprise, however famous that when eating places have been closed, folks got here to Winesburg Meats and bought meats to organize meals at house.
The shop is open Monday via Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. They’re closed Sundays and all main holidays.
For extra data name 330-359-5092.
