Overview
- Owner Franz Saißreiner says the family enterprise will close for good, ending production after a final Leberkas promised for an event on January 11.
- The retail counter and snack bar were shuttered about three years ago, leaving only the back-of-house kitchen run by Franz, 68, and his wife Johanna, 64.
- The production rooms will be taken over by cheesemonger Roland Ober, known as “Käse-Ober,” who plans to make cheese creams and vegetarian spreads there.
- None of the couple’s five children will continue the business, and Johanna’s heart attack in May, along with the couple’s age, accelerated the decision.
- The shop had shifted from slaughtering to an expanded catering operation serving local kindergartens and the school canteen, as competition from supermarkets and changing diets left Grafing with only two independent butcheries.