Ground Meat Management System

In this section:

Food Safety
Quality
Profitability
Appendix I – Nutritional Labelling
Appendix II – Grinding Log
Ground Beef Consumer Resources
Ground Meat Management Checklist

The Ground Meat Management Manual
for retail meat operations

Ground products play a central role in achieving profitability for the meat department. Their contribution is both direct, through sales of items such as ground beef, and indirect, through their ability to generate traffic flow and sales of other items in the retail meat operation.

Sustaining the profitability of this category as well as ensuring quality and safety is best achieved through a systematic effort. The Ground Meat Management Manual is a resource which is devoted to the illustration of key factors for consideration by management from ingredient purchasing to sale.

At the conclusion of this manual, you are invited to complete the management checklist. While not all aspects of this self evaluation are equally applicable to each operation, they are designed to highlight factors which contribute to the ongoing success of the majority.

The complete manual can be downloaded here. (PDF 3.2MB)