Stores include coffee bars featuring Vero coffee, one of Mariano’s own-brand labels, along with homemade gelato that’s made using what the chain calls “Italian techniques.”
Say 'cheese'
The store features a specialty cheese shop offering hundreds of artisanal, imported and domestic varieties that are hand-cut and wrapped in-store.
Ethnic foods
The Tastes of the World aisle features foods from 15 different countries, with flags from each country hanging next to the foods displayed on the facing gondolas.
Sweet Shoppe
There’s a specialty counter with hand-dipped specialties like strawberries in either milk or white chocolate, plus store-dipped caramel apples, gourmet popcorn and chocolate truffles.
Fresh salad
The salad bar, located near the front of the store close to the prepared foods counter and the soup bar, utilizes a metal fixture to a different look.
Sushi
The OKI sushi bars, tended by certified sushi chefs using fresh ingredients, do a big business at lunchtime and pick again around dinnertime.
Fresh produce
Stores feature approximately 1,000 produce items during the summer, including 800 conventional and 200 organic varieties.
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