Giant Food opened its first in-store fast-casual restaurant last week in partnership with Maryland-based Nelly Fresh. The restaurant opened in Giant’s Ellicott City, MD location.
According to news reports, Nelly Fresh is a chef-driven concept that makes everything fresh daily and features a wide variety of customizable salads, wraps and bowls. The in-store location is able to fulfill third-party delivery orders from DoorDash and UberEats.
Giant Food, based in Landover, MD, operates 165 supermarkets in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. Within the 165 supermarkets are 153 full-service pharmacies, 80+ PNC Banks, and 29 Starbucks locations. Its parent company, Alhold Delhaize, is also the parent for The Giant Company, which is based in Carlisle, PA and operates about 190 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.