Jay Bhavani Meat Shop

Jay Bhavani Meat Shop sits at 202 Navragpura in Chinchwad. It’s a small shop, mostly filled with the counters and the cutting blocks. We get our stock in very early when it’s still dark outside. My family has been doing this kind of work for a long time. There is no air conditioning, just the open front and some fans to keep the air moving. It gets busy on weekends when everyone is home cooking. We spend a lot of time sharpening knives and cleaning the scales. The floor is tile so we can wash it down easily. It's a physical job, standing on your feet all day. We talk to the customers about their day while we weigh things out. Sometimes the traffic in Navragpura makes it hard for people to park, so they just double park and run in quick. We try to be fast so they don't get a ticket. We don't have a website or anything like that. We just rely on the people who live nearby. There is a lot of waste that we have to bag up and move out every evening. It’s not the cleanest job in the world, but it’s honest. We know the regulars and what they usually want. It’s just a simple meat shop serving the local area. Nothing more to it than that. We just close up when we run out of stock for the day.