Doms Market

Dom's Kitchen & Market operated a hybrid gourmet grocery and restaurant format in Chicago, positioned around high-quality ingredients, fresh produce and prepared foods. Stores combined retail grocery aisles with seating areas and a food hall serving sandwiches, salads, soups, artisanal pizzas and similar prepared items. Internally the business is also associated with a Chicago sandwich-shop deli operation, including a turkey club built on locally sourced Slagel Farm smoked turkey.

The company later combined with Foxtrot, an upscale convenience retailer that started as a delivery app before moving into brick-and-mortar stores, under a shared parent company called Outfox Hospitality. Approximately five months after that merger, Outfox shut down all stores across both brands, closing 33 Foxtrot locations in Chicago, Austin, Dallas and the Washington, D.C. area and two Dom's locations in Chicago, and laid off employees. The parent was reported to be preparing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing, with the company stating it had found no viable option to continue operating despite its efforts.

Business model

Dom's generated revenue from in-store grocery retail combined with foodservice, operating large-format Chicago stores that paired packaged and fresh grocery assortments with a food hall and seating for prepared meals such as sandwiches, salads, soups and pizzas.

Latest developments

All Dom's and Foxtrot stores were permanently closed on the same day, with staff notified hours beforehand, and parent Outfox Hospitality was reported to be preparing to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.