Safa Halal Meats — Local services in Fredericksburg

One Star is Way too much for this place. I am NOT sure how they got their license; however; this place lacks everything related to Hygiene. The butcher has no understanding of what’s cross contamination is all about; as soon as he was done handling bunch of chicken; he started cutting meat on the same counter he was cutting the chicken on. When I voiced my concerns; the butcher got mad and he started mumbling in his native tongue. Dried Blood from previous order was still on his hands and he never washed his hands once while I was waiting there for my turn. I waited over 35 mins and you can observe customers walking in and out the prep area ; handling meat and utensils without washing their hands and they are all so dangerously close to the prep area ; they had no business being all over the area. Even one patronage was smoking and coughing and none of the staff directed him to stop. We waited for over 35 mins and none of the staff acknowledged our presence or asked us if we needed assistance. We left our meat and chicken order behind and we only paid for few grocery items. Unfortunately; one item was out of date; the pita bread was stale and the frozen Taro roots packages were moldy. There was a small rat going up and down the isles and when one of the staff saw me staring at it; he replied with a smile on his face; “we are animal friendly shop...”

Above the poor hygiene practices; above the staff rudeness ; above the selling of out of date stale merchandise and above the rats mingling with customers; the prices were outrageously high... I understand as a Muslim we have to follow our religion and buy Halal meat; however; what I don’t understand how the owner can monopolize on selling Halal meat in the area at outrageously high prices...The owner considers himself a Muslim and he sells the only fresh halal meat in the area and he squeeze every dollar from the poor hardworking families just to satisfy his Creed...Please don’t believe anything I am telling you here..I challenge each and everyone of you to go to this shop and see if I am right or wrong...

I wish prosperity and happiness upon the owner and his staff; however; he needs to stop taking advantage of fellow Muslims ; he needs to provide a decent customer service and above all; we have kids and we need to be able to trust him selling fresh clean products. I urge you to change your business practices especially the store...

Extremely disappointed. They are in meat business and do not know about halal and haram. In past three years, I have reached them several times for aqiqa goat and they say they will cut the goat and then weight it and then sell it. I told them one of the requirements for aqiqa is that you must know the price before buy it then they we have been doing this way and haven't had issue. What? I told them aqiqa doesn't take place just like in eid ul adha, you have to buy the goat before slaughtering, it's the same. The guy got real loud and screaming saying you're NOT a Mufti. Well, please go get a written fatwa from a Mufti or get yourself some education in what is halal and what is haram.

When I call today, I didn't go in detail rather ask nicely if I can get and the answer was NO.

If the owner is reading it then he should fix this practice. I will make sure this message get to the owner. If the practice is not fixed then I am going to do my part and let people know that you can't go there for...

I wish I could give it less than one star, they are thief, management is sooooo poor, customer service is ZERO, their attitude is very very bad, they are mean and so rude, price are VERY high, the goats/Sheep’s were under son with no shadow and one was dead over there, and so so so other negative issues, I do not know how the government does not know or take action against them, I would recommend to find a better place, but never go...