Specialties
We sell quality cuts of meat, vacuum sealed for quality storage. 99% of our meat is butchered inhouse. All Locker Hog and Locker Beef sales are from local ranchers and the 4H Program. All retail meat is USDA inspected. All smoked meats, summer sausage, jerky, and pepperoni sticks are made inhouse. Our shelves are stocked with 99% Washington Made. Supporting quality, local small business is important to us.
History
Established in 1994.
CJs Custom Meats, purchased by Mike Rockholt in 1994, is family owned and operated by Mike and his partner Isabel and Isabel's Son, and Co-Owner Maurico (Mo) Alcaraz. Mike works in the shop cutting, curing, and smoking meats and filling sausage and pepperoni casings. Isabel works all over the shop but mostly on the front end of the shop, helping customers and packaging products. Mo is the General Manager of CJs and handles all of the operations of the business. Dora, Mo's wife also works in the shop cutting, packaging, and in the front with customers. There is a team of cutters, a team of packers, and a team of loaders, maintenance, and a retail Manager. Several employees are family within CJs, but whether they are blood related or not, the entire CJs team is family. Attending the Moses Lake Farmers Market for the last 20 years, they attended other markets, but none proved as supportive as Moses Lake, which drove them to open a retail location and so here we are at 210 S Gumwood St.
Meet the Manager: Dawn L.
Hi All, My name is Dawn and I operation the CJs retail location in Moses Lake. I met Mike an Mo through the Farmers Market as the manager. As with all my vendors, we developed a great working relationship. My heart lies with customer service. supporting local and putting that thought out for others to see its affects. I also very much enjoy marketing and advertising, especially for local small businesses. So, when I decided to leave the Market in June 2022, Mike and Mo approached me with this adventure. How much fun it has been to be a part of something so wonderful. Not only do I get to support and help grow a business with people who have become a part of my family, but in this location; we have created a mercantile of not just the quality meats you have come to expect from CJs, but also some other pretty amazing businesses you've come to love from the market as well. It's like a mini market, but indoors. It's like I won the lottery. I get to do what I love, every day.