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    Austin Walton

    @Austin

    Team Orange Walton's Employee Admin

    VP of Operations at Walton's & host of Meatgistics

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    Website www.waltons.com Location 3639 N Comotara St, Wichita, KS 67226 Age 33

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    Best posts made by Austin

    • RE: My Appeal to Walton

      Chef
      @Team-Orange @Team-Blue @Regular-Contributors @Power-User
      Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.

      I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
      Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.

      Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.

      While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.

      The Most Important Stuff

      One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.

      posted in Non-Food Related
      Austin
      Austin
    • Brat Fest 2022

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      Brat Fest 2022 is almost here!

      Hopefully, at least a few of you guys (@Team-Orange @Team-Blue @Regular-Contributors @Power-User @Yearling @Veteran) will be in the area and able to join us this Saturday!

      For those that cannot be there I’ll try to post pictures here as we finish getting ready and as the event is going on.

      Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brat-fest-2022-sponsored-by-waltons-tickets-345632204227
      Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2LhZArKKy

      Here is the first pic from the last couple of days and the making of 800 lb of sausage!

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      posted in General
      Austin
      Austin
    • I'm Back

      I’ve been tagged a number of times in the past 2 weeks and haven’t been responding, but I am back and will try to respond as I am catching up on things. Sorry for not getting back to some of you sooner, but I have been out for a good reason…

      Kid number 2 was born on 12/3! (Gemma Walton)
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      I should be on the Christmas Livestream this Friday. I won’t be on the entire time, but I’ll be on for at least part of it.

      I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season, having good luck through hunting season so far, and is ready for Christmas here really soon!

      posted in Non-Food Related
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: What did everyone cook today?

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      My wife spoiled me for our anniversary and let me get a cowboy ribeye and filet mignon meatballs!

      posted in Bragging Board
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Waltons Shipping Policy

      akdave and I had a good offline conversation about this. We are in the process of adding USPS to our available shipping options. While it is not complete, his feedback was great, and we are working on getting this moved along further. Our original plan was to add extra USPS options earlier this fall, but decided not to as we didn’t want to make a big change in our “busy season”. As we are getting into the first of the year and things will start slowing down, we will make more progress here, and hopefully in a month or so we will have a full implementation. We will get the order for akdave out, and he is going to be one of our guinea pigs on running a few USPS things through. Thanks akdave ! We are glad you spoke up and gave us some feedback, and we hope that it will be a much better and easier process for shipping for you and our other Alaska customers soon!

      If anyone else has other feedback about Meatgistics or Walton’s, please, always feel free to share it. Everything doesn’t always have a quick and easy fix, but we do always appreciate hearing from our customers and we will always try to find ways to make the entire process for everyone easier!

      posted in URGENT 911
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Brat Fest 2022

      glen My dad and I were looking at the lines and knew we had to change something. There was probably 200 to 300 people in line at the worst point. Splitting the tables and moving around eased things up so fast!
      Ran too crazy today to get a bunch of pictures, but Patrick was out with the camera, so we should have some good photos and videos to share later!
      The event was amazing! Don’t have a final tally yet, but we definitely crossed into 5 figures of money raised for the Air Capital Flyers Special Olympics team today!

      posted in General
      Austin
      Austin
    • Brats & Sausage!

      Jonathon is gone today, so I felt like I had to man the studio kitchen and keep it running, so I made just a few pounds of brats today! Just two 5 lb batches. One was Cheeseburger Cheddarwurst Seasoning and the other was Jalapeno Popper Sausage Seasoning

      Cheeseburger was made with 1 whole pound of High Temp Cheddar Cheese!
      Yes, Jonathon 1 whole pound to 5 lbs of meat! I’m definitely going for cheese overload on this one!

      Jalapeno Popper was made with another 1 whole pound of High Temp Mozzarella Cheese

      Both were a 50/50 split of beef and pork. Thought that might make them different and interesting, so we’ll see what the comments are and if people like them that way.

      I have the family coming over for lunch on Sunday after my daughter’s baptism, so I needed some sausage to cook. My wife immediately asked for Jalapeno Popper, and I figured Cheeseburger Cheddarwurst anyone would like, but hopefully/especially the kids that will be there. Jalapeno Popper is a newer flavor that has really risen up our list of favorites here!

      I got the electric stuffer out and going, and it was amazing to do it all so easily by myself with that thing. I can’t wait until we get them in later this year and others get a chance to use them.

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      posted in Meat Processing
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Witchita tornado

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      That was from my back porch. It went east past us, then turned north and went along side us. Probably within 3 miles at the closest to our house. We watched it form and grow from just a small rope tornado to a pretty wide funnel. I guess they said F3 was the size.
      Right before this one built up, we watched a funnel cloud swirling above the house and within 5 minutes of that, we watched the one in the picture form. It was quite a night for watching storms! Did a fair bit of damage through Andover, but thankfully no casualties.

      posted in Non-Food Related
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: What did everyone cook today?

      Tex_77 could not get to Walnut Valley yet for beef bacon so it’s a pork bacon morning here!
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      posted in Bragging Board
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Logo Modified - Looks Way Better

      GWG8541
      I wouldn’t do a new one… The one you have will become a collectors item and maybe be worth a lot of money someday cause it was a true original! Lol

      posted in General
      Austin
      Austin

    Latest posts made by Austin

    • RE: Podcast Questions for 1/25/23

      Tex_77 I’m going to enjoy this podcast! lol

      posted in General
      Austin
      Austin
    • Podcast Questions for 1/25/23

      Submit your questions or comments here to get your topic on the weekly Meatgistics Podcast!

      Whatever you want. Open mic here. Can’t guarantee we’ll get to everyone’s post, but we’ll hit as many as we can, and probably try to focus on the ones that get the most upvotes/likes.

      Ask away. We record Wednesday afternoon (Jan 25).

      We will also be working on longer videos and content about the history of Walton’s and the video walking tour from the last round of questions.

      posted in General
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Meatgistics Episode: Playing Possum

      Tex_77 I would be willing to cook some more possum for you and steal some of Jon’s seasoning if you’d try it out! Lol

      posted in Podcast
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Denny O's Pizza it's what's for dinner!

      Denny O
      As as self-proclaimed pizza expert and connoisseur, I approve of this post and your pizza-making abilities! Haha!
      That looks incredible! Well done!

      posted in Bragging Board
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: How many would try this?

      twilliams HerbcoFood I would be willing to try it, but I wouldn’t have a very positive attitude about it. Sounds good for a breakfast sausage patty, but for a beef patty/hamburger… Not sure that would be super great.

      posted in General
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Gyro Cone Mold

      Ridley Acres I have never heard about it being requested and I’ve never seen something to do that either. I don’t have a lot of great input on this one…

      posted in Equipment
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Basketball

      bocephus Amazing considering a first-year coach with only 2 players returning and coach Tang filled a roster with mostly transfers in 2 months. We’ll see if they can keep it up. Exciting, but still has me nervous if we can sustain it. If we lose 2 in a row, we’ll fall out just as fast as we got in there.

      posted in Non-Food Related
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Meatgistics Podcast: Food Movie

      dawg that is a great point!

      posted in Podcast
      Austin
      Austin
    • RE: Meatgistics Podcast: Food Movie

      Tex_77 either way, it was delicious!

      posted in Podcast
      Austin
      Austin
    • Ask Questions for Meatgistics Podcast - - Jan 11, 2023

      I want to try a new thing for this next week’s podcast.

      Submit your comments and/or questions here to get your question or topic on the Meatgistics Podcast!

      Whatever you want. Open mic here. Can’t guarantee we’ll get to everyone’s post, but we’ll hit as many as we can, and probably try to focus on the ones that get the most upvotes/likes.

      Ask away. We record Wednesday (Jan 11) afternoon.

      posted in General
      Austin
      Austin