OUR STORY · 80 YEARS · 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 for 80 years. 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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80+
Years family-owned & operated
50K
Sq ft USDA cutting facility New
25+
Refrigerated trucks daily
70K lbs
Oxtail cut & trimmed every week
The Brodman family
80 years. Four generations. One name.
From a single butcher's bench to one of the Northeast's most trusted wholesale meat operations — built generation by generation, never losing the values that started it.
1945
Europe
1st generation — Joseph Brodman
Joseph Brodman establishes his craft as a master butcher in Europe — sourcing directly from farmers, developing an uncompromising eye for quality, and building the standard that would define every generation after him.
1980s
New York
2nd & 3rd generation — Werner & Joel Brodman
Joel Brodman and his father Werner open butcher shops together in New York, building a loyal following of local restaurants and communities. Werner, carrying Joseph's European standard, mentors Joel in the craft while they grow a reputation for quality and trust. Werner eventually retires — but the standard he set never does.
2000s
West Babylon, NY
3rd generation — Joel Brodman
As business grows and restaurant demand increases, Joel Brodman makes the leap — leaving retail butcher shops behind to launch a dedicated wholesale distribution operation in West Babylon, Long Island. Direct farm relationships are built with Greater Omaha, JBS, Nebraska Beef, National Beef, Amick Farms, Mountaire, and Pilgrim's. The fleet of refrigerated trucks begins to grow.
2024
Hauppauge, NY
4th generation — Joel + his sons & daughter
Joel Brodman, alongside his two sons and daughter, opens the most ambitious chapter in Casanova's history: a brand-new 50,000 sq ft USDA-inspected cutting and distribution facility in Hauppauge, NY. The fourth generation is now on the floor and in the office, scaling the operation while keeping the customer-first values that have defined Casanova since 1945.

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. 1945
"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 1945.

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

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