Thirty-seven years after he started working at Tend-R-Lean Steak Company, owner Marty Kreinberg has decided to close down the company and sell the building at 7106 Lorain Avenue. Kreinberg said he had been negotiating with a potential buyer for the business, but the sale did not materialize.

Kreinberg will continue to work in the neighborhood selling wholesale meat to restaurants and groceries while working for Shaker Valley Foods on W. 67^th Place in the Stockyard neighborhood. For over 20 years, Tend-R-Lean Steak Company has advertised on the back page of the Plain Press offering readers prepackaged frozen meat at wholesale prices.