LeBlanc’s Food Stores will open its first Baton Rouge grocery store Tuesday, March 31, at 6 a.m.
The new store will be a LeBlanc’s Frais Marche concept, which emphasizes fresh produce and prepared meal options and side items. The store is located at 3446 Drusilla Lane in the former Hi-Nabor in Drusilla Village, which LeBlanc’s took over last summer. LeBlanc’s director of corporate communications Brooke LeBlanc Knight says 10,000 square feet was added to the space, bringing the total size of the new grocery store to 35,000 square feet.
LeBlanc Knight says the space has been completely renovated.
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“Literally, we retouched everything,” she says. “We completely redid the flooring, the roof and the electrical and mechanical aspects of the building. Pretty much nothing is in its original state. That’s why it took us so long.”
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The store, which started in the early ’60s in Gonzales and has expanded to nine locations (including the forthcoming Drusilla Frais Marche store), will have a hot bar with breakfast, lunch and dinner items, a salad bar, olive bar, fresh-cut fruit bar, soups, take-and-bake pizzas and sushi, as well as a deli/bakery, meats and seafood. Business hours will be 6 a.m.-9 p.m., seven days a week.
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