Johnnie's Foodmaster, more commonly known as simply Foodmaster, is a chain

Chain store

Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices. These characteristics also apply to chain restaurants and some service-oriented chain businesses. In retail, dining and many service categories, chain businesses...

 of eleven supermarkets in the Boston Metro Area

Greater Boston

Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston. Due to ambiguity in usage, the size of the area referred to can be anywhere between that of the metropolitan statistical area of Boston and that of the city's combined statistical area which includes...

. It has its headquarters in Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...

.

History

According to Foodmaster's website, John DeJesus Sr. opened his first store in East Cambridge, MA in 1947.

Foodmaster Today

Today Foodmaster operates in a grocery marketplace that includes Market Basket

DeMoulas' Market Basket

DeMoulas Market Basket, more commonly known as Market Basket, is a chain of 66 operating supermarkets in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. It has stores from central New Hampshire to Bristol County, Massachusetts with headquarters in Tewksbury, Massachusetts...

, SuperValu

Supervalu (United States)

SuperValu Inc. is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States , and ranks #51 on the Fortune 100 list.On June 2, 2006,...

's Shaw's and Star Market

Star Market

Star Market was a New England chain of supermarkets owned by the Mugar family and based in Greater Boston. The company was sold to The Jewel Companies, Inc. in 1964, and was later sold to Investcorp, which sold the chain to Shaw's Supermarkets...

 stores, Whole Foods Markets, Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. , Trader Joe's had a total of 365 stores. Approximately half of its stores are in California, with the heaviest concentration in Southern California, but the company also has locations in 30...

, Delhaize's Hannaford, Royal Ahold's Stop & Shop

Stop & Shop

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company is a chain of supermarkets located mostly in the northeastern United States. Its main rivals are Shaw's Star Market and Hannaford in New England, while ShopRite and the A&P family of supermarkets are its main competition in New York and New Jersey.- History :Stop...

, a number of smaller, local markets (for example, Butcher Boy), and Super 88. Foodmaster supermarkets are usually located in shopping centers with other stores. Foodmaster is unique in terms of its employee dress code. Cashiers and service and grocery clerks are required to wear a black apron and a white collared shirt.

The former Foodmaster in Revere, MA reopened under SuperValu's Save-A-Lot

Save-A-Lot

Save-a-Lot is a discount supermarket chain headquartered in Earth City, Missouri, near St. Louis, United States. The subsidiary of Supervalu comprises approximately 1,250 stores in the United States with over $4 billion in annual sales....

limited-assortment banner on October 8, 2010. Foodmaster still owns the store and licenses the Save-A-Lot format from SuperValu. More Foodmaster locations may convert to the format in the future.