About Us

PrimeTimeButcher.com is an outgrowth of our family-owned butcher shop Prime Time Butcher in Woodbury, New York. For over three decades it has been our singular goal to serve the needs of food lovers who want the very best.

We pride ourselves as one of the few exclusive purveyors of the nation’s most-coveted Dry Aged Prime Beef. Complementing our exceptional meat selection are superior cuts of Dry Aged Choice Beef; American Lamb; Nature Veal; All -Natural Poultry, Beef and Pork; Organic Meats and Poultry; Certified Pork; American Waygu Beef and American Kurobuta Pork.

Our products are hand-selected from the finest Prime USDA suppliers in America. Once our Prime Beef is in-house, we carefully dry -age it “on the hook” in specially designed coolers to further optimize its flavor and texture.

We hand-cut every item the old-fashioned way. Trimmed and wrapped to your specifications, each order includes expert cooking instructions to ensure superb results.

Our family’s time-honored slogan is “Great Company in Your Kitchen” and indeed we are. Prime Time has received many accolades. Recently, our family store was recognized as “one of the few shops whose knowledgeable help is passionate about selling their customers the same quality meats that they would bring home to their families” (Newsday, NY).

This year has been an extraordinary one for Prime Time Butcher. Drawing on the DNA of Prime Time Butcher in Woodbury, we reinvested our experience by introducing two new separate exciting ventures… The debut of a sister store in Roslyn Heights, New York that is brimming with our famous meats and a flavorful range of homemade oven-ready and prepared dishes, marinades and simmer sauces and now PrimeTimeButcher.com, the web’s first online “Virtual Neighborhood Butcher Shop.”

All of us at PrimeTimeButcher.com love the art of preparing the finest foods and pleasing our customers. As we evolve, we promise to maintain what makes us so special… …our dedication to always providing you with the highest quality products available and our eagerness to fulfill every detail of your request.

Browse our online cooking guides for inspiration and instructions. We assure you that with PrimeTimeButcher.com as your butcher, your cooking will outshine your favorite steak house or gourmet restaurant.

Enjoy life and eat well!

Lou and Josh Kreitzman

Our Roots

	THE HEART OF PRIME TIME Lou Kreitzman

Lou’s family has been knee-deep in the meat business for three generations. In the 1930’s, his grandfather Milton found much needed work at a meat wholesaler in the Fort Greene Market, Brooklyn, New York. Lou’s father, Manny, a Golden Gloves competitor, lugged steers on his back in the same Brooklyn Market, giving up a precious college scholarship in pharmacy to support his mother and sister. After many grueling years, Milton, Manny and other family members took a life changing leap. Pooling their resources they began a small wholesale meat business on Long Island. It was a risk that stretched the family and tested their resolve, but in time they prevailed and established a foothold in a demanding industry. By 1959, at age 11, Lou had become a small but familiar apprentice in the family meat cooler. His good “meat instincts” surprised no one. Meat was in his genes. Weekends, holidays, summers, college breaks, Lou worked the line, learned from the old guard, developed invaluable industry experience and, most importantly, developed a passion for high quality-meat. In 1974, Lou graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Rhode Island Business School, was honored as a member of Who’s Who in American Colleges and served as teammate and Captain of URI’s champion soccer team. He enrolled in Georgetown Law School to pursue a career in litigation. But Manny fell seriously ill. Lou scraped his law plans and joined the family business. Few young men enter a career with the life learning Lou possessed. Fluent in business practices and the wholesale meat industry, he excelled in purchasing, sales, marketing and distribution. He nurtured longtime relationships and established direct ties to new customers. The family business blossomed, increasing sales in previously untapped markets. In 1996, Lou bought Prime Time Butcher in Woodbury, NY, an independent purveyor of prime beef that had been a community fixture for over three decades. Lou’s goal for Prime Time was singular…take an excellent but limited butcher shop from good too the very, very best. He developed relationships with the finest suppliers in the United States, created menus of oven-ready and prepared foods… mixing traditional foods with haute cuisine. Indeed, what is most striking about Prime Time Butcher today is the juxtaposition of an old style neighborhood butcher store with the shop’s innovative food style. Prime Time Butcher has been recognized numerous times for its superb meats, homemade dishes and outstanding personal service. But Prime Time is also the personification of Lou Kreitzman...a man who honors tradition, demands the highest quality, and most of all, is passionate about his customers and his company.

	LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Josh Kreitzman

Josh graduated in 2000 from the Roy H. Park School of Communications, at Ithaca College. An award-winning media major, Josh has exceptional talents in image, technology and marketing. ESPN, a worldwide leader in sports entertainment, hired Josh upon his graduation. He helped produce ESPN’s college football coverage before joining an independent film company as an Assistant Producer. Meanwhile, Prime Time Butcher was discovering new ways to expand its neighborhood butcher shop services. Josh recognized an outstanding opportunity to combine his media experience with his family legacy. He joined the company (and his dad) in 2003, making him the fourth generation in our family to choose a career in the meat industry. Lou and Josh are a dynamic duo. Their shared traditional values and entrepreneurial spirits complement one another. Their individual strengths drive them to succeed in their daily work and make meaningful choices for the future. Like Lou, Josh “lived” the meat industry since he was a young boy. He too experienced that special apprenticeship that fires a passion and deepens a commitment to a vocation as did his father. Josh has taken the leading role in creating PrimeTimeButcher.com. His goal is to bring the extraordinary quality of our neighborhood butcher shops online….integrating it on the web for all to experience and enjoy. He also takes great pride in locating specialty products, creating new recipes, developing marketing strategies and instituting state-of-art technologies that keep Prime Time Bucher at the pinnacle of excellence.