The national competitionwinner will receive a grand prize of $25,000 and be crowned Meat Cutter of the Year. “It's really an art,” says Kelsey Teagarden, Texas Roadhouse Product Coach.

But once you get them home, how do you make sliced meat look like, well, more than just a plate of sliced meat? Chronicle contributor George-anne Brennan has some great ideas with the recipes on ...

But it’s meat gold; it was my go-to cut for when I wanted to wow guests at my Sunday cookouts. I searched each meat case for the USDA prime-grade steaks and panicked. I spotted a meat cutter.

In his blue-and-white striped shirt, complete with name patch, he points incoming customers to open spots or the shortest line at the meat ... Bud’s father was a meat cutter, and so was Bud.