OUR STORY · EST. 1958 · FOUR GENERATIONS · HAUPPAUGE, NY

From a butcher's bench in Europe to 50,000 sq ft on Long Island.

The Brodman family has been cutting meat, building relationships, and feeding New York since 1958. We're big enough to run 25+ trucks daily and process hundreds of thousands of pounds a week. We're still small enough that when you call, a Brodman picks up.

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4 Generations
Years family-owned & operated
50K
Sq ft USDA cutting facility
25+
Trucks offering next day delivery
70K lbs
Oxtail cut & trimmed every week
The Brodman Family
Four Generations. One Name. Since 1920.
From a single butcher's bench in Europe to one of the Northeast's most trusted wholesale meat operations — built generation by generation, never losing the values that started it.

1920 — Europe

1st Generation — Joseph Brodman

Joseph Brodman earns his Master Butcher certification in Europe, establishing the standards of quality and craftsmanship that would define every generation after him.

1970s — Bronx, New York

2nd Generation — Werner Brodman

Werner Brodman brings the family tradition to America, opening a butcher shop in the Bronx. Carrying Joseph's European standards, he builds a reputation for quality, integrity, and personal service — laying the groundwork for what Casanova would become.

1980s — Freeport & Copiague, Long Island

3rd Generation — Werner & Joel Brodman

Joel Brodman joins the family business and works alongside his father to expand operations. Together they grow the retail butcher business across Long Island, opening additional locations and building lasting relationships in the community.

2000s — West Babylon, NY

3rd Generation — Joel Brodman

As restaurant demand grows, Joel transitions from retail to wholesale distribution — launching a dedicated operation in West Babylon, Long Island. Direct farm relationships are established with Greater Omaha, JBS, Nebraska Beef, National Beef, and Amick Farms, and Casanova's refrigerated fleet begins serving restaurants across the Northeast.

2024 — Hauppauge, NY

4th Generation — The Brodman Family

The Brodman family opens the most ambitious chapter in Casanova's history: a state-of-the-art 50,000 sq ft USDA-inspected cutting and distribution facility in Hauppauge, NY. With over 100 employees and a growing fleet, the company continues to scale while preserving the family values that began with a single butcher in Europe more than a century ago.

Our facility — Hauppauge, NY
50,000 sq ft built for restaurant-grade volume
One of the largest USDA-inspected custom cutting operations on Long Island. Whether you need whole primals, portioned steaks, bulk oxtail, goat, lamb, or poultry — we handle it at scale, with precision, every day.
▸Custom cut-to-order
Ribeyes, oxtail, goat, pork — portioned and vacuum sealed exactly to your spec. Tell us the size, we cut it.
▸USDA daily inspection
Federal inspector on premises every single day. Every weight verified, every cut cleared before it leaves our floor.
▸Cold chain integrity
Temperature-controlled from our floor to your kitchen. No breaks in the chain, no compromises on freshness.
▸Volume capacity
Hundreds of thousands of pounds processed weekly — the volume that earns us farm-direct pricing we pass straight to you.
Federally
USDA
Inspected
Every pound weighed. Every cut inspected. Every order guaranteed.
A certified USDA federal inspector is on our floor every single day — verifying weights, grading cuts, and clearing every order to federal standards before it leaves our facility. For restaurant owners, that means consistency you can count on and the food safety documentation your health inspector expects.
✓ Daily federal inspection ✓ Certified weight accuracy ✓ FDA food safety compliant ✓ Vacuum sealed for freshness ✓ Cold chain maintained

Our Family Core Values

Behind our high-volume capacity is a dedicated team built on generations of trust, personalized service, and deep-rooted industry relationships.

📞 A real person always picks up
No call centers. No automated menus. You reach our actual sales team — the same people who know your account, your cuts, and your schedule.
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Four generations on the floor
Joel Brodman and his sons and daughter are actively involved every day. When you work with Casanova, you're working with the family.
🔁 Relationships that last decades
Many accounts have been with us 20–40 years. We earn loyalty by treating every order like a first.

THE FULL STORY

FOUR GENERATIONS. ONE STANDARD.

Casanova Meats isn't a corporation that bought a distribution network. It'sa family that built one — butcher shop by butcher shop, relationship by relationship, over eight decades.

JB
Joel Brodman
President & CEO, Casanova Meats
3rd generation · Est. 1958
"I have been fortunate enough to keep the Casanova name alive and continue its tradition in bringing the highest quality meats to our extraordinary customers. Our team at Casanova strives every day to make sure that we execute on our customer-first mentality — providing a unique experience whether it is your first time ordering or you have been trusting Casanova for decades."
— Joel Brodman, President & CEO

Large enough to handle your volume. Small enough to know your name.

direct-receiver relationships with the top beef and poultry farms in the country. We cut 70,000 pounds of oxtail every single week. And yet — Casanova Meats is still run like the neighborhood butcher shop it started as. That's not an accident. That's a choice the Brodman family makes every day. When you call us, a real person picks up. When your order needs adjusting, a real person fixes it. That is the Casanova way — and it has been since 1958.

80 years in business. Let's start your account today.

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