Right: Butchers work on site at the Grandview store. Left: Everything in the meat case comes from Ohio farmers. Kristi’s response- “Are you out of your *** mind?”-might have daunted a less-determined man, but Tony pressed on. With a reformer’s zeal, Tony decided that if he couldn’t find a butcher shop that sold the kind of local, farm-raised meat that he wanted to buy, then he would open one. “The marketing of meat in particular was not what I would call always honest,” Tony says. “Once he died, I started doing my own research about health and food and food processing.” A close friend died of a rare cancer that he believed was linked to his diet. Then, on election night of 2014, Tony’s life changed. He even met wife Kristi, a Governor Voinovich staffer, while working on the re-election campaign. Former high school athlete? “Wrestler,” he confirms.Īfter growing up in a politically engaged family, Tony took a sociology degree at Ohio University and spent the next 11 years immersed in local and state politics and government, jobs that included serving with State Auditor Dave Yost. Tony is six feet tall, broad-shouldered, bearded and affable. Tony Tanner, the 49-year-old founder and owner of The Butcher and Grocer, is a proud lifelong East Sider, having lived in Columbus, Pataskala and Eastmoor, but “never on a road that didn’t intersect with East Broad.”Īfter an initial phone interview, we have connected at his shop.
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