Our Story
More than 85 years of McKeesport butchering, deli, and corner-store service. From Grandview Avenue to Eden Park Boulevard, the standards behind the counter haven’t changed.
Old-fashioned quality and service. For over 85 years.
Same standards. Same hands-on approach. The McKeesport tradition that has never stopped doing things to order.
Where it started
A Grandview Avenue butcher since the early 1930s
Lampert’s opened on Grandview Avenue in the early 1930s, when every McKeesport corner had its own butcher and grocer. For more than eighty years, the Lampert family kept the doors open on the same block, with the same approach: meat cut and wrapped to order, in front of the customer, never behind closed doors.
Passed to the Kuglers
From the Lamperts to Clarence, and on to Rick and Jan
The Lampert family ran the market until 1981, when Clarence Kugler, Rick’s father, bought the business, name and all. In 1993, Rick and his wife Jan took over from Clarence and kept everything that worked: the cut-to-order meats, the Polish smoked kielbassi, the hands-on care that already had generations of regulars coming through the door.
They added a few of their own touches, too. Hungarian kolbász, hurka, and paprika bacon now sit alongside the originals in the case.
A new corner
From Grandview to Eden Park Boulevard
In 2012, Rick and Jan moved Lampert’s to its current home at 2010 Eden Park Boulevard, across from Renzie Park and right next to McKeesport High School. Under one roof: a butcher counter, a full-service deli, and a convenience aisle, all in one stop.
The Kugler years
Thirty years of hands-on work
For three decades, Rick cut the steaks, chops, and roasts behind the counter and tended the smokehouse out back, making the jerky, meat sticks, and kielbassi by hand. Jan and the team kept the deli moving all day: hoagies, hot sandwiches, pizza, homemade salads, and homestyle dinners.
Between them, they built the reputation the shop still runs on today.
“There’s a big difference between someone who is hands-on and cares about what they’re doing, as opposed to someone who’s just doing a job.” Rick Kugler
Today
A new chapter, the same Lampert’s
On July 1, 2026, Rick and Jan retired and passed Lampert’s to Hitesh Desai and Neel Patel. Both are committed to keeping the traditions alive and well for generations to come, along with the same great products and the same quality service McKeesport has counted on for more than 85 years.
Rick and Jan are staying on for a while to help make the transition a smooth one, so you will still see familiar faces behind the counter.
Three counters, one shop
Everything Lampert’s has grown to be, on one block of Eden Park Boulevard.
Butcher Shop
Cut-to-order steaks, chops, and roasts, plus made-on-premises sausages, kielbassi, and paprika bacon.
Visit the butcherDeli
Hot hoagies and sandwiches, sliced-to-order meats and cheeses, homemade salads, and pizza by the slice or the pie.
See the deliConvenience
Soda, snacks, tobacco, lottery, and the pantry basics that round out a one-stop trip.
Browse convenienceCome see us on the corner
Find us across from Renzie Park at 2010 Eden Park Blvd, McKeesport. Monday through Friday 7am to 6pm, Saturday 9am to 4pm.