Killeen Meat Market

Variety is the spruce of life and a supermarket under brand-new ownership hopes to include more variety and spruce to day to day life in Killeen.

Jose Bucio is the owner of the Delicias Meat Market on company U.S Highway 190, and hopes to renew the shop. The shop once was known as Los Angeles Michoacana.

Delicias had its grand opening Dec. 5 and news spread fast through social media, radio ads and word-of-mouth. Industry features Hispanic foods and intercontinental items maybe not available in your community.

Bucio said he can’t contend with corporate rivals H-E-B and Wal-Mart, but he’s perhaps not trying to. Rather, he wants to offer the public an alternative choice for meats, generate and baked goods.

“We have our own solution to serve Killeen with products off their cultures, as well as the usual food items people buy, ” Bucio said.

The Killeen shop is the newest inside family-owned business. Delicias has two other stores in Bastrop and Austin.

Whilst Killeen store’s idea continues to be the just like Los Angeles Michoacana, the high quality and solution Delicias Meat Market offers will set it besides the past shop, Bucio stated.

“We knew it couldn’t be very easy to show the public that individuals are a new shop with brand-new ideas, but our modifications will work, ” he said. In the four months since he purchased the shop Aug. 1, the store’s sales enhanced 35 percent. Bucio credits that development to 3 important aspects: much more staff, quality meat at lower costs and fresh-baked items.

With a shop staff of 18, nearly double from previous staff, including six butchers as well as 2 bakers, consumers have more attention and faster service. Known for its fresh, marinated meat, the store provides a sizable variety, including lemon pepper chicken, and barbacoa (slow-cooked beef), carnitas (roasted chicken), plus steaks, ribs and fish and shellfish with about twelve new varieties of meats.

A mini-makeover is within the works well with the bakery division with two brand new tortilla devices, one each for corn and flour tortillas, as a result of be set up in about three months. Two bakers start at 5 a.m. organizing meals eg cooking pan dulce (nice bread), cakes and pastries.

“That ended up being a significant modification for us which will make our baked goods fresh daily instead of from frozen dough as it was prior to, ” Bucio stated.

Another issue because of the old shop ended up being the frequent change in shop management.

In the previous 3 years, Los Angeles Michoacana had eight supervisors, but new shop supervisor Lupe Sanchez stated he seems toward serving the public for many years in the future.

Customers usually ask him if shop had been expanded because it appears bigger, but he said they just added another line at the center aisle.

“We moved the existing aisles somewhat closer collectively and put an additional row, which added about 500 even more services and products, ” Sanchez stated.

Aisle after aisle of fully stocked racks, nice rows of vegetables and fruit coating the produce section and a fresh cup case for baked items are a general improvement into the shop he talked about.

More modifications will come in January. It will probably offer an in-store taqueria with an expanded menu for break fast, including pancakes and break fast tacos. A few of the popular lunch items consist of enchiladas, tacos, chile rellenos, baked chicken and caldos (soup).