A Marina Mart is a small retail store located within marinas, boat docks, and waterfront recreation areas, designed to provide boaters, fishermen, and waterfront travelers with essential supplies, snacks, and marine-related gear without requiring a trip inland. The co-founders of the Food Away From Home Association are developing new licensing models to support independent retail and food service operators seeking a strong brand identity, starting with Lobby Shops (a branded version of a Hotel Pantry) and expanding to Camp Marts and Marina Marts.
Marina Marts cater to boaters and waterfront visitors by offering a curated selection of grab-and-go snacks, cold beverages, sunscreen, bait and tackle, marine supplies, and first-aid essentials, ensuring convenience and preparedness while on the water. These stores often include personal care items, over-the-counter medications, and branded marina merchandise, such as waterproof bags, hats, and nautical souvenirs. As the industry evolves, many Marina Marts are incorporating local seafood selections, premium boating accessories, and self-service checkout options, making them a valuable, revenue-generating amenity for marina operators looking to enhance guest services.
CampandRV.com is also involved with national parks, RV supply, RV Dealers and more.
The Hotel Retail Group is available to help with your in-store marketing needs (POS, shippers, displays, club store displays, signage, racks and fixtures, etc). We have over 30-years with the largest companies (Nestle, Coca Cola, Pepsi/Frito-Lay) and a vast number of start-up brands (Nature’s Bakery, Perfect Bar, Coachella Farms, etc) in creating merchandising programs.
Our merchandising unit manufacturers are based in America with factories in Mexico and China.
FOOD SERVICE FORMATS: The Food Away From Home Association’s founders have been involved in the Food Service industry (as suppliers, partners and media) for many years. Our new membership will include operators and franchisors as well as others such as food service providers, chains, distributors, associations and more. We are also expanding into healthy option ideas and introductions for their customers (smoothie, juice, boba tea and yogurt).
The Food Away From Home Association will be launching its membership drive soon! As part of our initiative, we are first engaging with key stakeholders in the industry, including smoothie shop, boba tea shop, juice shop, and yogurt shop operators, franchisors, franchisees, suppliers, distributors, and other essential partners. Our goal is to build a strong network that supports and advances businesses in the food away from home sector. We welcome discussions at the trade shows we visit to share insights about our program planning details and how membership can provide valuable resources, advocacy, and networking opportunities.
Juice Shops are becoming more and more popular and are growing in many locations throughout America. You will see them in strip malls, colleges and universities, food courts, hospitals, hotels, resorts, airports and many other food service formats.
Our Grab-and-Go program (ex: smoothie shops, juice shops, boba tea shops) includes beverages, candy, energy bars, brownies, fruit snacks, dairy products, ice cream, sports nutrition products, macarons, croissants and others.
We have been in television production since the mid-1980’s and have had a-number of TV shows over the years including the recent launch of Entrepreneur Magazine Television. Our next show about start-ups is called The Counselors.
Our family has been involved within the consumer product industry (US based manufacturing, retailing, distribution) since the early 1920’s. From the first generation to the latest, our best practices have been handed down over time leading to a long legacy of successes in the business (manufacturing, retailing, distribution and more).
