About Us

PrimeTimeButcher.com is an outgrowth of our two second generation family-owned butcher shops in Woodbury and Roslyn Heights, NY. Prime Time Butcher is one of the most respected purveyors of the nation’s coveted Dry Aged Prime Beef and price-friendly Dry Aged Choice Beef. We stock American Lamb; Nature Veal; All-Natural Poultry, Beef and Pork; Organic Meats and Poultry; Certified Pork; American Waygu Beef and American Kurobuta Pork.

Chefs in our kitchens prepare an array of oven-ready and cooked foods including appetizers, salads, entrees, side dishes, sauces, soups, marinades and gravies as well as homemade cookies, rugulach and brownies.

For over three decades our stores have served the needs of food lovers who want the very best. We are delighted to extend this experience to you with the web’s first “Virtual Neighborhood Butcher Shop.”

Prime Time has received many accolades. Our stores are 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). Joan Hamburg, WOR radio personality featured our Bliss Burgers on her nationally-syndicated food show and said "extraordinary…the best burgers I’ve ever tasted."

Prime Time Butcher’s products are hand-selected from the finest Prime USDA suppliers in America. We know the source of our products and we never stock wet-aged or boxed beef.

Once our hanging Prime or Choice Beef is in-house, we carefully dry -age it “on the hook” in specially designed coolers to enhance fits flavor and texture. When the meat reaches optimum aging, we hand-cut it the old-fashioned way. Every custom order is hand-trimmed and wrapped to your specifications. Expert cooking instructions are provided to ensure that you have a wonderful eating experience.

All of us at Prime Time love fine food and take great delight in feeding our customers. We promise that our virtual store will maintain what makes our neighborhood shops so special…a dedication to always providing you with the highest quality products available and an eagerness to fulfill each and every detail of your order. Please browse through our product and cooking guides...feel free to ask us questions, write comments and make special requests. From us to you…Welcome to the Neighborhood!

The Kreitzman Family

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.