Exclusive | How ‘oyster girls’ became an NYC party essential — with top events eagerly shelling out for the sexy service

Step back, shot girls — for a truly hot NYC party in 2025, you need oyster girls.

They are beautiful, young women, often seen wandering among the Big Apple’s best-dressed revelers, dolled up in slinky black dresses and heels.

Their mission: To seamlessly shuck the aphrodisiacal shellfish by the handful, serving them directly, with all the trimmings, to guests — all while maintaining eye contact and a sparkling smile.

“I could do this in my sleep,” Sara Naomi, a model for event caterer Oysters XO, boasted to The Post at a recent fashionable fête at Peak, 101 floors above Hudson Yards, hosted by Events by RHC.

The beaming beauty steadily worked the room, dispensing the briny bivalves, floating among and charming her customers — without once clamming up.

It’s an especially impressive feat when you account for the clunky, custom tool belts, loaded down with four buckets — one for unopened oysters, one for accouterments, another for napkins and the last one for shell discards.

Rifko Meier is the mastermind behind the operation — he founded Oysters XO over a decade ago after a friend asked him to learn how to shuck the sea treasures for an event she was catering.

Immediately, he came up with a way to improve the experience — with beautiful women roaming the party and prying open the tricky treats — while engaging with guests one-on-one.

That pearl of wisdom quickly made the world his oyster.

Meier’s big break came one day in 2013, when his crew of fab femmes were booked for the premiere of “The Great Gatsby” with Leonardo DiCaprio at The Plaza, then-President Barack Obama’s White House correspondents’ dinner and the Super Bowl XLVIII at Met Life stadium — all in the space of 24 hours.

Since then, the glam girls have become the premier addition to luxury events both in the city and far beyond —  from celebrity birthday parties to the Kentucky Derby, multiple Super Bowls and various star-studded Oscar parties.

Luxury party planner PJ Fuerstman Meyer, of Pzazz Productions, has included Oysters XO in some of the extravagant parties she’s planned, including the glitzy New Year’s Eve event at the Marriott Marquis this past Dec. 31.

Guests rang in the new year, which has only seen the popularity of these services swell. “In New York, there’s always been a fascination with oysters and oyster shuckers, but they’ve definitely become more mainstream,” Fuerstman Meyer confirmed to The Post, noting a rise in requests.

Although she’s noticed this trend making a splash outside the city as well, with other companies, including Red Oyster USA, Oysters Hawaii and the Oysterman Events UK serving up the trend.

Fuerstman Meyer explained that the lovely Oyster Girls “delight the guests in unexpected ways” by “integrating food and beverage into the entertainment.”

Meier agrees that the company’s success is due to the shock factor of having beautiful women do something most party guests can’t — plus, their appealing act ends with a tasty treat.

“Everybody in America always thinks that shucking oysters is the most difficult thing in the entire world,” Meier, who is originally from the Netherlands, told The Post.

That’s why he knew people would be in awe watching women deliver the delicacy without furrowing a brow or wobbling in their heels — “surprising people in a way they didn’t expect they could be surprised anymore,” he said of notoriously jaded New Yorkers.

“When girls in heels come into a venue event space and surprise guests with freshly shucked oysters — the surprise is complete, and that’s the success behind the company,” he said.

For example, an unnamed chef who once assumed the all-female team might need help from his male kitchen staff.

Meier called in the crew to work magic on the doubters — who “were like looking at them as if they were seeing water burn.”

Still, while his catering service does offer hunky male servers too, Meier said the majority of clients definitely prefer women — even if they don’t come right out and say it at first.

Building on more than a decade of success slinging raw seafood, Oysters XO is now leaning into the latest food craze — caviar bumps.

Clients can now request the same personalized party experience as before, but with the voguish black gold instead.

The posh profferers strut the premises with a similar tool belt — this time, holding a silver tin of salt-cured roe, a bottle of crème fraîche, a stack of mini blinis and other typical accompaniments.

To truly taste the delicacy, experts recommend licking a naked dollop off your hand — and that’s how they wind up serving most of their caviar.

“Basically, it’s like kissing a mermaid,” Meier offered.

And while economic uncertainty may be looming, business continues to boom — with the company booking high-profile gigs at major events like the 2025 Formula One Miami Grand Prix and the Indy 500.

“I am the American dream,” the mollusk mogul mused. “I’m not sure if people understand the American dream anymore. You don’t have to be a billionaire to have the American dream.”