Shrimpy and Snappy’s Seafood Now Offering Ready-Made Lunch/Dinner Options

“We do it day-after-day from 11 a.m. by means of 5 p.m., providing sure menu gadgets. Some weeks, we do one thing totally different,” Amy mentioned. “The most well-liked issues – and what we’re sticking to as staples – are crab cake sandwiches – together with the crabby soften. We’ve had plenty of orders for it and made it a constant merchandise. We’ve additionally had requests for salmon muffins, which we did previously, so this week we introduced them again.”

Promoting ready meals was a part of the marketing strategy when Shrimpy and Snappy’s opened within the fall of 2021.

“After we opened, the vacations have been proper across the nook and we determined to attend till that each one died down after which it was a matter of getting tools in,” Amy mentioned.

The shop continues to evolve.

“We’re now additionally placing grill packs collectively. Every thing is all packaged and also you decide up, take residence and grill or bake,” Amy mentioned. “And beginning in July, we’ll be doing a seafood boil within the parking zone as soon as a month. Individuals can name forward, and we’ll cook dinner it they usually and cease and decide it up.”

Shrimpy and Snappy’s can be doing a little touring, establishing in different West Virginia cities, this month together with Summersville and Spencer.

“We arrange the refrigerated van, deliver coolers and freezers, and so on. and promote contemporary seafood,” Amy mentioned. “We attempt to go to locations that don’t have that choice near them. We’re getting the phrase out and journey to extra locations.”

The couple nonetheless travels to the Carolinas to buy product, however they do most of their shopping for – particularly of shellfish like oysters, clams, and mussels – in Baltimore.

“Particularly with fuel costs now, Baltimore is rather a lot nearer and a number of the suppliers we met in Carolina ship to the place we go in Baltimore. They reduce it up there and we are able to decide it up. It’s rather less processing for us that method,” Amy mentioned. “We go to the Carolinas every so often to get shrimp. We meet her within the morning, and he or she comes together with her shrimp off the boat. We refill on different fish after we go down there.”

Common from day one has been salmon, Amy mentioned.

“We realized our opening week that folks wished salmon. We hadn’t purchased sufficient of it and we ran out,” Amy mentioned. “Scottish salmon has been the preferred. And this week, we purchased king salmon, caught out of the Copper River.”

Shrimpy and Snappy’s is situated on the Market Plaza on Jerry Dove Drive. Hours are 10 a.m. by means of 6 p.m. each day.