ONF supermarket to open in November

Ozark Natural Foods, a consumer-owned cooperative since 1971, plans to move on Nov. 6 from its Dickson Street location to a section of Fayetteville’s Evelyn Hills Shopping Center, which is owned by Weingarten Realty Investors of Houston, Texas.

Weingarten is almost finished with a $2 million renovation to the shopping center. The ONF spot previously housed a Montgomery Ward store.

The move will more than quadruple the space for the health food store — from 3,000 SF to 13,000 SF. The grocery section will double in size.

The change will also allow room for a full deli and full-line juice and coffee bars, said Linda Pullen, owner services and marketing coordinator for ONF. In addition to sandwiches, the deli will also serve rotisserie chicken that’s free of hormones and antibiotics.

All organic coffees sold by ONF are “shade grown,” Pullen said. That means rain forests weren’t cleared to make room for the coffee fields.

“So we’re trying to remain ecologically friendly, too,” she said.

The deli will have seating for 10. An outside section will have seating for another 20 to 30 people. The store will also have an “educational corner” with a computer, bulletin board and reference books on nutrition, and the new location will have more parking and triple the cash registers offered at the old location.

” It’s more of a supermarket feel in the new store,” Pullen said. “We’ll have a lot more products and better services. They can eat well in a relaxed atmosphere.”

ONF is open to the public. Anyone can become an owner by investing $140 into the cooperative over seven years. Currently, there are about 1,700 owners who receive benefits ranging from discounts at the store to invitations to the annual cooperative picnic at Lake Wedington. The cooperative is run by a seven-member board of directors who are elected by the owners.

For the next year, ONF has an option to lease an additional 10,000 SF of space adjacent to the new location if the cooperative chooses to expand.

Store hours will also be increased at the new location. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

You know? Unoto open in October

Yunho Kim was pretty confused when he first came to America from his native Korea. Everybody in the Boston airport kept saying his name, “You know.”

“I thought I must be very famous in the United States,” he said. “At the time, my English was really bad.”

In mid-October, Kim plans to open a Japanese/Korean restaurant in the Superior Linen building in Fayetteville and name it after himself — You know? Uno. The story of the restaurant’s name will be printed on the back of the menus.

The restaurant will specialize in teriyaki (chicken, beef and shrimp) and karaoke singing. You know? Uno will also serve Korean specialties like bulkogi.

The restaurant be open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Kim said prices will be “moderate,” and some lunch items will be downright cheap (but very good, he said).

The restaurant will occupy 3,500 SF of space on two levels of the 73-year-old, 10,000-SF building that is still undergoing renovation.

Kim came to Fayetteville to pursue a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Arkansas. He teaches chemistry at the UA as a graduate assistant. Kim said he has worked in restaurants in Korea but not in the United States.

Jaimito’s opens in Rogers

On Sept. 9, Martha Fonseca opened Jaimito’s Mexican-American Restaurant at 416 S. 8th St. in Rogers.

The restaurant is open from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. Fonseca said she’ll eventually begin closing one day a week, but she hasn’t decided what day that will be.

The family owned restaurant, which has 13 tables, serves Mexican specialities like menudo (beef tripe) with noodles and birria (goat meat cooked in red sauce) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.