Continuous growth is a hallmark of Mays Meats. Started nearly 30 years ago as a custom slaughter house and meat processing company by Wayne Mays and his wife Margie. Mays Meats, now under the ownership and management of their sons, Jim and Mike Mays, employ over 40 people in the Taylorsville, North Carolina area. We operate 13 refrigerated delivery trucks of all sizes. We make deliveries everyday but Sunday to restaurants, and grocery stores in a 150 mile radius of Taylorsville.

Jim takes charge of production while Mike handles sales and marketing. The quality of our service and of our products, has allowed us to compete successfully with larger regional competitors. As we grew from a meat processing facility into a distributor that supplies every food and paper item used in restaurants, we are now a full service supplier for restaurants and some grocers.

We have continuously added more cold storage and freezer space and, true to our roots, we still provide a custom slaughter house for beef, pork, and lamb. All of our meat is USDA inspected. We continue to butcher several thousand deer during the season and process it into a variety of cuts, ground meat and sausage.

Our building and our presence in the community have grown and we take a measure of satisfaction by being able to support the community with good jobs and provide great products in our retail store.

We have a passion for what we do and it shows

Our retail outlet has grown exponentially over the years. We sell fresh and frozen groceries to the public six days a week.
Hours of operation are 8:00 am until 5:30 pm Monday through Friday and 8:00 am until 2:00 pm on Saturdays. We are closed on Sundays. The meat in our store is "Fresh as Fresh is" as it travels only about 30 feet from the processing room to the shelves.

The Lord has blessed us tremendously," said Jim. "That's the key to our success."

We also have added Sugar Grove Country Ham to the mix.

Mays Meats owns the company and ships sugar cured ham products all over the country. It is also available in our Taylorsville retail store.

We have a strong ethnic customer base and we supply a lot of businesses that cater to the Hispanic and Asian populations in the area.

The operation is still a 'family' business. Jim's son Isaac has worked in every department, while Mike's daughter Lauren works with retail customers at the sale counter.