The Loeffel Meat Shoppe at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be hosting a grand re-opening celebration event from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 3. There will be recipe samples, along with demonstrations on food safety, knife care and proper knife usage in the home kitchen from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., along with store sales and giveaways.
The shop is a USDA-inspected retail meat sales operation that sells cuts of beef, pork, lamb, goat, smoked and slicing sausages, brats, naturally cased weiners and multiple varieties of ready to eat snack sticks. The retail store, located on Nebraska’s East Campus at the corner of 38th and Fair streets, is open on Tuesdays from 1 to 5:30 p.m., and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It has been open and operating since the 1960s.
Sales from the business help offset costs associated with the academic programs in animal science. Livestock are harvested and processed for sale in the Loeffel Meat Laboratory with assistance from Nebraska students in the department. Students gain experience by learning how to process, package and sell the products that they process, in addition to playing a role in developing new products to sell in the shop, such as the jalapeño popper bratwurst, which was a two-time national award winner.
