Every butcher knows the December pattern. The orders start in November, they come in by phone, they go in a book, and somebody has to read the handwriting on the twenty-third. Turkeys, ribs of beef, pigs in blankets, collection slots, deposits. It is the most profitable three weeks of the year and it runs on paper and memory.
A website will not take the orders for you, and we are not going to pretend otherwise — this is a business website, not a shop system. What it will do is take the pressure off the counter. Weights and prices published, so nobody rings to ask. Order deadlines stated, so you stop taking a turkey order on the twenty-second. A form that gathers the name, the joint, the weight and the collection day in writing rather than shouted over a queue.
Butchers who do this tell us the same thing every January: the same volume of orders, half the phone calls, and nothing lost in translation.