Pritzlaff Wholesale Meats, LLC

Pritzlaff Wholesale Meats, LLC operates at 17025 W. Glendale Drive in New Berlin, Wisconsin, in Waukesha County. The plant holds USDA FSIS establishment numbers M31884, P31884 and V31884, with listed activities of meat processing, poultry processing and voluntary slaughter of meat. FSIS classifies the establishment as very small, and the grant of inspection date on file is July 23, 2021. Species detail is not reported to FSIS, and no custom-exempt activity is reported.

The company describes itself as a third-generation, family-owned distributor and manufacturer of quality meats, servicing fine dining restaurants, hotels, country clubs, casinos and institutions throughout southeastern Wisconsin and the Chicago area. According to its history page, Herb Pritzlaff opened the family's first shop on Vilet Street in Milwaukee in 1942. His son Bruce Sr. built the current New Berlin facility and opened a secondary processing plant, Riverside Meats, in Waukesha, which originally processed local cattle, provided freezer locker services and housed a small retail butcher shop. Today the website states that the Waukesha facility produces Riverside Meats label specialty prepared and ready-to-eat products including pastrami, corned beef, sausage and other smoked and marinated items. Brothers Bruce Jr. and Mike took over from their father in 1990, and the company reports over 60 employees.

The website says beef is Midwest-raised and corn-fed, hand selected, aged in on-site coolers, and hand-cut to order by master butchers who average more than 15 years of experience. Products are described as available vacuum packaged and boxed, delivered fresh in the company's own refrigerated trucks. Listed delivery territory includes Madison, Janesville, Waukesha, Lake Geneva, Port Washington, Sheboygan, Green Bay, Appleton, Fond du Lac, Racine and Kenosha. Orders are placed by phone at 262-786-1151, and new customers are directed to complete an online customer form.

The federal record lists voluntary slaughter of meat along with meat and poultry processing at this establishment, and no custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS. The website presents the business as a wholesale purveyor and distributor rather than a custom processor for individual livestock owners, and it states that the Waukesha Riverside Meats facility originally processed local cattle and offered freezer locker services but today produces specialty prepared and ready-to-eat products. Terms for bringing in animals, booking, minimums, kill fees and cut and wrap charges are not stated in the sources on file. Producers should call 262-786-1151 to ask what is currently available, as listed.

Pritzlaff Wholesale Meats, LLC operates under a federal grant of inspection, so product from this plant can be sold anywhere in the United States, which matters if you sell online or across a state line. FSIS does not list a custom-exempt activity for this plant.

The sources describe a wholesale business selling to restaurants, hotels, country clubs, casinos, institutions and retail and grocery accounts, with orders taken by phone at 262-786-1151 and a new customer form on the website. The site also advertises a warehouse sale and signature gift boxes and holiday gift baskets that can be sent to family, friends and business colleagues. A walk-in retail counter is not described at the New Berlin address; the history page notes the Waukesha facility once housed a small retail butcher shop but now makes prepared products. Halves and quarters, household bundles and consumer shipping are not mentioned in the sources on file.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.