To save customers’ time when writing checks, Harroz shortened the name to Crest.
Harroz and his wife Cherry expanded the business in the ‘50s and early ‘60s, moving their operation in 1964 to a new location in the Ridgecrest Shopping Center in Midwest City. Navy in World War II, Nick Harroz returned to Oklahoma to open his first grocery store in Midwest City. Nick Harroz’s father opened the family’s first grocery store in 1929 at SW 29 and Agnew in Oklahoma City.Īfter serving in the U.S. His father was Crest founder Nick Harroz. But now that will be put in after the Yukon store.”Ĭrest Foods’ president and owner was literally born to be in the grocery business. “We also bought property a couple years ago at Sooner and Covell (in Edmond),” Harroz said. Crest Foods’ current stores are in Oklahoma City, Midwest City, Moore, Edmond and Norman. The Crest Fresh Market at I-40 and Czech Hall Road will be the company’s farthest store west. “We donate a large amount of the proceeds for the Food Bank for the hungry kids of Oklahoma. “We have a golf tournament every year in September,” Harroz said. The new Yukon-area Crest Fresh Market is expected to create 150-175 jobs.Ĭrest Foods now has about 1,800 employees in its eight stores and three warehouses.Ĭrest wants to be a good corporate citizen, its owner added. The site plan shows where the Crest grocery store will be located and the number of square feet the facility will consume.
“We carry USDA-certified Angus beef,” Harroz said. The south Yukon Crest store will feature specialty seafood and meat departments, bakery, deli, and fresh sushi made daily. “We have full-service and wide aisles for the volume we have.” And people want to go where they can save money. “We do it the old-fashioned way,” Harroz said. He and his team will welcome customers from across the Yukon-Mustang area and west Oklahoma City. Harroz estimates his new Crest store in the Market at Czech Hall retail development will open in fall 2020. “And that brings large families – and that’s who we cater to,” he said. “And it looks like it’s going to keep growing.”Ĭrest has been attracted to this area because of the public schools that Harroz called “among the best” in Oklahoma. “We’re excited about coming because we know the growth out there in the Yukon-Mustang area has been unbelievable in the last five years. “We’ve been looking at the Yukon-Mustang area for probably 10 years now,” said Harroz, who’s owned Crest Foods since 1999. Open 24 hours, the new south Yukon site will be Crest’s ninth store. Crest Foods believes the time is right to build a grocery store in the “unbelievable” growth area west of Oklahoma City, the company’s third generation owner said this week.īruce Harroz, president of Crest Foods, confirmed a 90,000-square foot Crest Fresh Market will be built on the south side of Interstate 40 west of Czech Hall Road.
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