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Ray McDonald wasn’t seeking to begin his personal on-line meat enterprise, however the Aurora resident doesn’t have a beef with the best way issues turned out.
In August 2020, McDonald and his spouse had been trying to find someplace they might purchase high quality beef on a weekly foundation that ticked plenty of bins.
“We needed contemporary, not frozen, free-range, hormone-free and, most significantly, native,” he mentioned.
“We had been merely bored with consuming grocery retailer meat. As a chef in one other life, I do know contemporary is what tastes finest, at all times.”
Whereas reaching out to a number of native farmers, the couple discovered one who met all their standards and likewise supplied a ten per cent low cost on group orders.
As an administrator of the Aurora Restaurant and Meals Information Fb group, McDonald figured he'd throw it up on the social media platform and gauge the response.
“Effectively, it seems that there is many individuals like us who need clear, contemporary beef. Issues kinda took off from there,” mentioned McDonald, whose advertising firm was onerous hit financially in the course of the pandemic.
“As soon as revealed within the group, it was nuts, my cellphone did not cease buzzing for 3 days straight. We could not ignore the demand, not to mention sustain.”
The McDonalds arrange Beef Solely, providing field orders of various cuts of meat in addition to full, half or quarter cows.
However don’t let the Beef Solely title idiot you.
The corporate additionally provides pork, hen, lamb, veal and goat.
Beef Solely began out as a pickup enterprise principally in Aurora however with some Newmarket and King Township spots as effectively, however now delivers to southern York Area, Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener/Waterloo and the Whitby space.
“We now have two drivers and myself to make that occur. Should be trustworthy, I nonetheless shake my head with disbelief how this has grown and am very humbled,” McDonald mentioned.
“All this mentioned, there is a larger image to what we're all doing. We're sustaining our Ontario agricultural footprint ... (and) you eat cleaner and more healthy meats. You are actually supporting native in some ways.”
Beef Solely has additionally pledged 100 kilos of floor beef to the Aurora Meals Pantry each month.
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