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Straub's Fine Grocers | |
Industry | Retail (Grocery) |
Founded | 1901 |
Founder | William A. Straub |
Number of locations | 4 |
Area served | Greater St. Louis |
Owner | Straub family |
Website | wegmans |
Straub's Markets (or Straub's Fine Grocers) is a specialty food retailer headquartered in downtown Clayton, Missouri founded in 1901 by William A. Straub.
William A. Straub founded the company in 1901 in Clayton, Missouri. It sold ice cream at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and has four locations in the Greater St. Louis Area, having expanded from the original location in Webster GrovestoClayton in 1933, the Central West End in 1948, and Town and Country in 1966.[1] According to the company, over 52 tons of its "World Famous Chicken Salad," are sold each year.[2] The company is owned and operated by Jack W. "Trip" Straub III.[3]