Flower Mound - Highland Village - Argyle | February 2022

BUSINESS FEATURE

BY KAREN CHANEY

TOP CHOICES

The meat market has a number of options available.

Boneless chicken breast is $5.99 per pound. Smoked sausage, starting at $6.99 per pound and is smoked in house. Bacon-wrapped let is $20.99 per pound.

Travis Halcovich is the general manager and lead butcher of Old Town Market, and Lucinda Ochwat is president of Old Town Market. They, along with six other employees, own the business. (Photos by Karen Chaney) Old Town Market Employee-owned business marinated in tradition in Double Oak I n 1977, Bob Knowles and Dickey Grant opened Old Town Market in Old Town Lewisville. is selling the company back to the employees. The end goal is to have employees own 80% with the rest owned by Teamshares.

Bacon-wrapped filets are available.

“The customers range from some- body doing a recipe that needs duck liver to those coming here every week who want chicken breasts and chuck roasts,” Ochwat said. Some of their recipes have a 45-year-old history, such as most of the sausage recipes, their barbecue sauce, the house rub and more. “I love that we still have custom- ers who have been shopping here for 45 years. That’s not an exaggera- tion,” Ochwat said. It is important to the new busi- ness owners to keep the old-timey feel of the business. “This is a meat market like I grew up going to,” Halcovich said. “If I can make that feeling for a Vietnam vet, and he says, ‘I know a place like this,’ that’s perfect.”

In 2009, Knowles’ son, Shawn Knowles purchased the business, and he and his wife, Sharon Knowles, ran the business until June 2022. The business outgrew its original location and moved to Double Oak in 2019. “In 2022, Shawn and Sharon retired and sold the business to Teamshares,” Old Town Market President Lucinda Ochwat said. “[Teamshares] market[s] to retiring business owners who don’t have a succession plan.” Ochwat added that Teamshares is a company that buys businesses and sells it back to the employees. At Old Town Market, Teamshares

In addition to meat, the business oers pasta sauces and more.

“It was a big part of the transi- tion for [Shawn and Sharon] that there was nobody better to sell the business to than the employees,” Ochwat said. Travis Halcovich is the general manager and lead butcher of Old Town Market. He has been a butcher for 22 years and with Old Town Market for two years. “You can get from wagyu let to ground chuck and everything in between [here],” Halcovich said. Examples of “everything in between” include chicken, pork, venison, elk, sh, frog, quail, lamb, turkey, duck and boar.

Old Town Market 123 Chinn Chapel Road, Double Oak 972-436-6742 www.oldtownmeatmarket.com Hours: Sun.-Mon. closed, Tue.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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