Why Choose an Artisanal Butcher for Wholesale Meat for Your New York Restaurant

As a restaurant owner, success hinges on two critical factors: the quality of your ingredients and the efficiency of your operations. When it comes to choosing your meat supplier, your choice goes beyond pricing and delivery methods. While corporate meat purveyors provide mass-produced cuts, many NYC restaurants trust family-run butcher shops like Piccinini Bros for customization, personal attention, and high-quality cuts. Here’s why choosing an artisanal butcher for wholesale meat in New York offers a distinct edge for your restaurant over your large food distributor. 

Value for Your Bottom Line

While large meat purveyors focus on volume, we focus on quality and a deep understanding of your culinary needs. Our expertise, rooted in a century of experience, allows us to recommend specific cuts for your budget while keeping your culinary vision in mind. This will enable you to maintain competitive menu pricing and increase your profit margins in ways a big corporation simply can't.

Quality Straight from the Source

Large meat suppliers operate with vast inventories and lengthy supply chains. At Piccinini Bros, our smaller shop means meat moves quickly – often in and out the same day. We maintain direct, personal relationships with the farms where our meat is raised, ensuring humane farming practices that lead to more flavorful meat. This direct connection means your meat arrives at peak freshness, providing higher-quality, more reliable products that your chefs can truly depend on, dish after dish.

Maintain Freshness

Do you know how long your meat has sat on a warehouse shelf before your food distributor delivers it to you? When you buy wholesale meat from Piccinini Bros, you know exactly when it was received, processed, and delivered to you. All our meat is USDA Prime certified, ensuring every cut meets the strictest quality standards. We partner with local and domestic farms to provide meat that is raised humanely, ethically sourced, and transparently produced.

Customized Selection

Unlike many large-scale food distributors, artisanal meat specialists like our team at Piccinini Bros provide a diverse range of meat types and cuts. We can customize your order by thickness, trim, and specific cut, ensuring you receive exactly what your recipes call for without jumping through hoops with your food service provider to get the exact cut you want. We’ll maintain consistency, too, so you can deliver dishes to your customers with recognizable quality, every time. 

Sustainability 

Choosing an artisanal butcher for wholesale meat in New York is inherently more environmentally friendly than large-scale meat production methods. Traditional meat production from large-scale food distributors creates significant waste, from the thousands of gallons of fuel consumed by semi-trucks delivering meat across the country to excessive, non-reusable packaging. When you choose a small butcher shop as your meat supplier, we age, cut, and package our meat in store and package it for efficient delivery and storage, being mindful of your restaurant’s storage capacity and freshness standards. 

Piccinini Bros: Your Trusted Partner for Wholesale Meat in New York

It’s essential to choose a reputable butcher that you know and trust, with a long-standing history of providing high-quality meat. At Piccinini Bros, we've supplied meat to New Yorkers and Manhattan's best restaurants for over 100 years. When you purchase wholesale meat in New York from our butcher shop in Hell’s Kitchen, you get the benefits of bulk-buying, the assurance of consistent quality, the convenience of custom cuts, and tailored delivery. When your order is ready, you can stop by our shop in Hell’s Kitchen, pick it up curbside, or have it delivered to your restaurant. 

To learn more about partnering with Piccinini Bros for your restaurant's meat supply, call us at (212) 246-8277 or contact us online.