OUR STORY
Jake’s Continental Butchery was established on July 1st 2017 and prides itself with providing the best quality meat and customer service in Western Australia.
Jake Wilkinson initially started working as a sole trader. With his step son Jedd helping out during busy week days and his daughter Paxton helping out for the busy weekend trade. The business soon became too busy for one person to manage so he asked his good friend, Antonio Ritorto to join the team.
Since Tony joined the team the business has gone from strength to strength. In two and a half years of trading Jake’s Continental has taken out 6 awards at the Western Australian Sausage King competitions. This includes:
1st – WA 2018 Gourmet for their Cheese & Bacon sausages
Jake’s most recent award was 1st – WA 2019 Continental for our Afrikaans Boerewors.
In most recent times the business has needed more personnel to cope with the increased demand so they have engaged the services of an Apprentice; Lauchy.
Jake’s Continental Butchery do all their butchering the old fashion way and cater for all sorts of nationalities to make sure you get the best quality and right cuts for your needs.
If they don’t have it they will source it for you.
ABOUT JAKE
In 1991 Jake left school and started working as a meat packer in Richmond New World Supermarket in Nelson, New Zealand. He enjoyed it that much that he decided to do an Apprenticeship.
In 1993 he started his Apprenticeship at Nelson Super Value where he learned all aspects of butchering. In 1999 he moved from new Zealand to Perth, WA where he worked in a number of roles at a wide range of butcher shops and supermarkets. The next phase in Jake’s career saw him learning Italian style butchering at Frank Torres Quality Butchers in North Perth.
After his time at Torres, Jake decided it was time to branch out and open his own butchery business which is now the award winning Jake’s Continental Butchery in the Kardinya Park Shopping Centre in Kardinya, WA.
ABOUT TONY
In 1965 Antonio Ritorto traveled from Calabria to Perth on the Gallaleo. He was 7 years old and couldn’t speak English so he had to learn fast in his new environment.
As an 8 year old boy Antonio started as a clean up boy at Frank Torres Quality Butchers in North Perth. By 12 he started his Apprenticeship where he learned the fine art of Italian butchering in every aspect. In 1995 Tony opened his own shop, A&R Family Butchers in South Terrace, Fremantle which was a very busy butcher serving all nationality’s.
In his 50 years of butchering Tony has worked and managed at many fine butcher shops in Perth and with his wide range of experience in the trade he is a big asset to Jake’s Continental Butchery.