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A butcher's shop is a craft business that processes and sells the products of a slaughterhouse after slaughtering into meat and sausage products . Other names for a butcher include butchers , abattoir in Austria butcher or Fleischhackerei and in Switzerland also Metzg .
In a butcher's work Fleischer . Their task is the production and processing of meat and sausage products. Butchers 'shops and butchers' shops today usually have a counter that is designed as a display cabinet, and often also a hot counter with a bain-marie , in which prepared meat dishes and meat loaf are offered.
Butcher's trade in Germany
Because the butcher's trade in Germany is one of the trades subject to authorization in the sense of the craft regulations , the operation of a butcher's shop is reserved for a butcher ( master craftsman compulsory ; §1 HwO in conjunction with Annex A, No. 32 ). There are (as of the end of 2016) 12,797 independent master craftsmen's businesses, around a quarter of which have one or more branches - in more than half of the cases, however, only one - so that a total of 21,329 stationary butcherships supply the population; there are also around 5,000 mobile sales outlets, for example at weekly markets . The number of establishments has been declining for a long time. According to the German Butchers Association, the main reason is the difficulty of finding a successor when the owner leaves the company - the association attributes this to the demanding legal and regulatory requirements that a butcher shop must meet - as well as the migration of customers to supermarkets and discounters as well as the shortage of skilled workers. The meat consumption of the German population has been slowly declining since the mid-1990s and is currently 60 kg per capita per year, which is high in historical comparison (in 1950 it was only 26.2 kg).
Around 60 percent of the employees in the butcher's trade work in sales , often part-time , in order to meet demand peaks and offer long opening times . Over 20% are marginally employed . (As of 2016)
The nationwide professional association of the German butcher's trade is the German Butcher Association (DFV), a voluntary amalgamation of all 15 state guild associations . (There are 15, because on the one hand Bremen and Lower Saxony as well as Berlin and Brandenburg have joint guild associations, on the other hand Palatinate and Rhineland-Rheinhessen are separated.) The DFV represents the interests of the butcher industry on national and international level in committees and through public relations . He is the owner of the so-called "f-mark" (a red and white trademark that shows the lower case letter f in front of a rhombus), with which butcher shops can be identified.
A leading international trade fair for the meat industry, the IFFA (International Meat Industry Trade Fair; the abbreviation is normally no longer dissolved) takes place every three years at the Frankfurt exhibition center .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Structural development in the butcher's trade. (PDF) In: Annual Report 2016/2017 of the German Butchers Association. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Meat consumption. (PDF) In: Annual Report 2016/2017 of the German Butchers Association. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ The central organization of the butcher's trade. In: Website of the German Butchers Association. Retrieved June 3, 2015 .
- ↑ The f mark. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the German Butcher Association. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015 ; Retrieved June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the f-trademark in the register of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
- ↑ IFFA 2013 - trade fair for trade visitors
