Specialties
Middle eastern food, such as grape leaves, hummus, kibbe, beef and chicken shawarmas, falafel, imported feta cheese, we also sell fruit and vegetables, we sell chicken and beef burritos. We also sell authentic olives like no others, green and black and some are mixed with hot peppers. we will also sell Middle eastern spices and canned goods. if our customers choose to take them home and prepare them at their convenience, or if they are going camping. We can show them and help them how to prepare the food if possible once they reach their location.
History
Established in 1998.
I purchased the business from a gentleman in 1998, it was geared more toward just a convenient store, with lottery, cigarettes, etc.. but since I chose not to have lottery anymore, and the business of cigarettes has decline dramatically for many reasons, we found ourselves against the wall.
Do or Die situation, either sit there and wonder who took my cheese, or just look for new cheese,( thanks to my amazing love, friend, partner in crime, my wife Mona, who asked me to read this book). The operation now is geared more towards good, healthy, delicious food. As I tell all my customers, it is not just good and healthy food, but it taste wonderful. when you make a dish from kibbe ( cracked wheat, filled with cooked meat, onions) with yogurt, or dip it with hummus, it is so yummmmy. The customer then can finish it with our imported BAKLAVA from CANADA.
You have to have it.
Meet the Business Owner: John H.
A very hard worker, father, friend, husband, brother, and a good student at UML, I am working toward my degree and my Masters in IT/business.
I put all my money and savings into this business that I love, to find it slipping away because there are too many C stores in Melrose, so I decided with my wife that we should have something very different than anyone else in order to attract customers and give them a wonderful reason to come in the door, and most important to come back.
I love dealing with people, I learned a lot from them, I enjoy 1000 times better when I make a sandwich to a customer, and watch them eat in the store and see the feedback on his or her face.