Your profession: Butcher (m/f)
Professional activities
Butchers produce meat, meat products, delicatessen foods, cooked dishes and preserved foods. They may work in butcher’s shops, where they present and sell products and advise customers.
Fields of work
Possible places or areas of employment for butchers include the following,
- Craft trade butchery companies
- Butcher’s shops
- Meat and meat products industry
- Retail trade
- Meat wholesale industry
- Slaughterhouses and meat jointing companies
- Catering sector, e. g. restaurants with their own butchery
Regulation
This profession is not regulated in Germany.
The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).