AUGUST 12, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 32
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Wegmans hiring over 500 HARRISON STORE SET FOR SPRING 2020 OPENING Matthew Dailor, store manager at the site of what will be the Wegmans location in Harrison. Photo by Bob Rozycki.
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BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com
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ven though its store opening in Harrison still is more than six months away, the Wegmans Food Markets under construction at 106-110 Corporate Park Drive already has 75 to 80 employees on the payroll, with more being added, store manager Matthew Dailor told the Business Journal. “We started our hiring as of April 1,” he said. “The number is in flux. We’re trying to hire over 500 so we’re always looking for good people. Currently, our folks are training in
our Montvale, New Jersey, location, which is some 30 minutes away.” Dailor said that Wegmans takes care of transporting the employees from Westchester to Montvale, where its 108,000-square-foot store opened in September 2017 and is slightly smaller than what’s taking shape in Harrison. The approved site plan for the Harrison store was for a 121,000-square-foot facility on the 20-acre site. It was initially approved to include a 12,000-squarefoot tenant space adjacent to the main building, but Dailor said, “That is no longer part of our plan. When we looked at it, it just wasn’t making sense.”
The site plan also has been revised to show a covered outdoor seating area overlooking the supermarket’s north parking lot. Dailor said the Harrison store will feature a Burger Bar, which is a popular attraction at other Wegmans stores. “It’s a fast, casual dining experience, so you can get burgers and shakes and fries and salads and things like that made right in front of you,” he said. “We’ll also have fresh sushi in the store every day. We’ll have our pizza shop, our sandwich shop, made-togo salad station and all of our perishable food, worldclass seafoods, meats and an amazing cheese shop. I love cheese.” The store will stock approximately 70,000 items. Wegmans purchased the property for $26.5 million from Normandy Real Estate Partners. “We’re » WEGMANS
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FOOD FIGHT ENDICO BROTHERS FIGHT OVER FAMILY BUSINESS BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com INHERITORS OF THE ENDICO ENTERPRISES, a prominent player in prepared foods for three generations, are fighting for control of the family business. Felix Endico of Darien, Connecticut, sued his brother, William Endico, of Armonk, July 18 in Westchester Supreme Court, claiming that company assets have been diverted. He is demanding $5 million and an accounting of transactions between UFS Industries Inc. — the family business — and his brother’s Ace Endico Corp. William “diverted monies, assets, resources, customers and corporate opportunities from UFS to Ace (and
himself ),” Felix alleges, to “destroy UFS as Ace expands on its own into manufacturing deli-style salads and similar products that had always been manufactured by UFS.” “He is totally delusional,” William Endico responded.” It’s total slander. What he’s accusing me of is all untrue.” UFS can be traced back to the brothers’ grandparents, Willie and Josie Endico, who opened a grocery store and a produce purveyor in the Bronx. It became known as Endico Potatoes Inc. after World War II, and was run by their father and two uncles. The family acquired Sally Sherman Foods, a maker of potato salad and other deli salads, in the 1970s. Today, UFS Industries operates from a facility » ENDICO
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