 Monday morning about a quarter after six and little chilly in New York Frankie boy doesn't have heat in his car so he has to bundle up and that brings us to I guess the overarching point today is financially speaking on Frankie's arranged meat things aren't looking too well which has kind of discouraged me and prevented me from I guess achieving what I've wanted to do and as much you know I come in here every day I look at things I see you know how far we've come even as little as you know products like natures glucose you know the labels I designed myself for the tallows and the lard and all that type of stuff you know where we started I keep that stuff in mind I try to focus on how far I've come in just the past two years and that you know just keep pushing keep pushing keep pushing keep trying to get to that end goal of providing people with as much high quality food as possible but when you look at the bank account every day and it's even it's very disheartening and I didn't do this to make money but I do understand that if I'm not making money I cannot expand the business I cannot provide people with those high-quality animal as well as plant foods which we've been adding recently that being said I'm confident the products I'm offering are better than I mean please guys like butcher it's not even close but I still feel like I need to get to the point that no one else has gotten to you know we need to have our own slaughterhouse our own operation our own full kitchen do more value-added products charcuterie the dairy and the eggs the farm stuff I want all of that to happen you know within a reasonable period of time because guy I mean guys I'm I'm almost 30 years old you know if I can't get this stuff done then I don't think anyone can and at some point you know things just have to kind of give way because honestly I've been killing myself I've spent every waking moment of my life for the past few years doing things I don't want to do and you know when I'm kind of miserable in my personal life and my business life I just don't know how much longer I can push through this but as I said I'm trying to stay positive I'm trying to focus on how far I've come and I'm trying to you know just get through these things and you know I do have an accountant looking at the books this might have to get another account because they're taking way too long to figure it out but point is I'm going to plug along and I'm going to get to that end goal whether it's now or whether it's three years from now so I'm just getting some stuff ready for the food's orders we got some nature's glucose here in bubble wrap new labels came in we had four ounces instead of five ounces box of labels is over there you know had to wag you ran out of labels beef tallow ran out of labels we got plenty of Iberico pork lard hanging around but I'm just kind of bubble wrapping these up so they're ready for the 20 or so orders and then I just put you know the whey protein and the best bars in and then that's it so we're going to pack up about 22 or so Frankie syringe foods orders then I got to fill out some orders for organ supplements so I'm going to do that probably take me about an hour or two and then I can talk to you guys about the farm the Amish stuff the dairy the eggs and how that's going I mean yeah from a business perspective obviously no one wants to say they're not doing so well just you know from any common sensical standpoint but you know since you guys are the reason Frankie syringe meat is able to function and you guys have supported me these past two years I you know I feel a responsibility to tell you guys the truth and let you guys know what's going on and that financial situation you know figuring out what's going on with the books and all that type of stuff it's kind of the answer to why none of this other stuff has been happening you know getting a loan for the slaughterhouse working with these Amish farmers possibly getting a farm ourself you know there's priorities and you know you have to walk before you can run and that's a big part of the reason I haven't been blogging Frankie syringe meat for the past few weeks now I was hoping to have some more positive news but you guys have been asking me you know what's up with the farm what's up with Frankie syringe meat you get in Rotary anytime soon all that type of stuff so we're just wrapping up the Oregon supplements orders now we did the Frankie syringe foods orders so I'll show you guys how many so the guys have been working for about an hour so we have you know quite a few Frankie's meat orders ready these are all the stuff I did for naturals Wi-Fi shielding organ supplements I don't know maybe we got 50 packages total split between the post office as well as some UPS on top got the guys working right now Adams here it's about 915 I'll just give them an update that like we're kind of breaking even in stuff so I was telling them like the farm stuff and the slaughterhouse and the dairy and the eggs is kind of on the back burner for a little bit because obviously we don't want to just do more work and just keep breaking even basically especially with the Amish people like the the raw dairy the farm the slaughterhouse that type of stuff working with these Amish people yeah that's definitely a priority you mean the farm for to do it ourselves instead of working with them because yeah because we're just the Amish want so much money for the product that we're basically just gonna be boxing it up for free shipping it out and then making us very small margin on the product the hope would be that it would bring in a lot more customers but if that doesn't happen then we dig a big-ass hole that we can't get out of basically what worst-case scenario is instead of getting more customers we don't get more customers and people order dairy instead of meat and then that would be a nightmare this week we're doing just the wagyu now right we didn't really push too much last week but this week we'll do the wagyu sirloin steaks yeah we have the bone in the bone out strip one and we can do the wagyu sirloin steak for only 550 per steak so if you guys want to try wagyu for basically five dollars for a small steak it's a great deal how much were we selling the regular sirloin steaks for like four dollars or 350 yeah so no this is a you're not gonna get a better deal than this yeah yeah people really like the the smaller some people like the smaller steaks especially if they're not eaten like a pound two pounds of meat at once yeah exactly so Adam kind of gave you the gist of it the Amish are not easy to work with that's a bit of an understatement you know they want a lot of money for their products they don't communicate via phone they want all their friends all their community involved so there's not just like one pickup site for the product so realistically we would have to do it ourselves which you know puts it way down the line and the problem is from a monetary perspective most of our sales are meat right now so we don't want to really invest or allocate any you know funds or loans or resources to just getting dairy and eggs we want to do the meat products first the charcuterie the sausage the hot dogs bacon have more control over our beef pork and chicken selection you know right now we have quite a few different cuts of beef but you know we don't have complete control over what pork and chicken we're offering you know from the variety of cuts to the quality of feed to offering organs to doing the value-added products so having the slaughterhouse having a meat processing operation on a larger scale is what we need to do first and then shortly thereafter we can do the dairy and the eggs ourselves and I don't even know if I'm going to do raw dairy I might just do high quality dairy just to not run into any legal issues initially because you can't even get that you know I said earlier in this video you know why run before you can walk and that's the same thing you know raw dairy is a giant leap compared to what the average person has access to so we definitely want to do that you know slaughterhouse farm dairy eggs all that stuff's definitely on the back burner I'll keep you guys updated over the next month or two just so you guys have an idea of what's going on and you guys could check out the first light wagyu we do have available I'm trying to get more of the venison but we do have some pretty good deals on that right now so frankiesurangemeat.com if you guys could please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and if you guys do want to support me further check out everything else on frank-tofano.com thanks again for joining me guys let me know if you have any questions what else you want me to show you and I'll see you guys for tomorrow's video