Will and Leslie operate the sales portion of the business, while Scott handles the buying and selling of cattle.
“My mom is the one who really put the money behind it and really believed in her kids,” Will said. “She definitely supports us. My brother manages all the cattle and the supply chains. (Leslie and I) are more of the salespeople. We recently got into a grocery store in Collinsville, Mississippi. She’s managing a lot of that right now, managing the wholesale accounts, and I’m right here managing the store.”
Welcome Home Beef also sells food from a food truck, which is open Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-9 p.m., though Will said the days of sale could expand if more cooks can be hired in the next few weeks. The truck offers burgers, cheese steaks and street tacos for lunch and dinner and ribeyes and New York strips for dinner only.
“Our pork comes from Mississippi State, most of the meat in this store is from our cattle and our seafood is bought from Horseshoe Farms,” Will said. “We supplement our ribeyes with 44 Farms. A lot of people don’t know this about cattle, but when you kill an animal, you only get 20 ribeyes and 70 filets off of that heifer. You can imagine ribeyes are the most popular item, so we supplement our ribeyes with (meat from Texas-based beef producer) 44 Farms.
Will said the family hoped to open the food truck sooner, but the pandemic made that difficult. Surprisingly, he said, that’s about the only difficulty the business has had despite opening a month before most businesses were ordered to cease operations. Meat sales went up after Welcome Home Beef offered curbside pickup and made deliveries.
