Brick Planning Board Approves Drive-Thru Grocery Store

BRICK, NJ — The Brick Township Planning Board has approved an application to put a drive-thru convenience store at a site on Mantoloking Road.

The board voted unanimously to approve the application by Farm Pointe LLC for a Farm Stores convenience store at the corner of Vannote Drive and Mantoloking Road, Pamela O'Neill, the planning board secretary, confirmed.

Farm Stores is described as "a combination of grocery store, bakery and restaurant" on the company's website. "We give you the freshest products in the most convenient manner: the equivalent of a drive-thru supermarket express lane."

Based in Florida, it began offering franchising opportunities in 2014, according to the website.

The 675-square-foot building will be occupied only by employees, as shoppers place an order that's delivered to them via drive-up windows. See an artist's rendering of what the store would look like here.

The chain carries popular brands of items from laundry detergent to coffee, and also has breakfast sandwiches, homemade soups, fresh baked goods and covers the basics — eggs, bread and milk — as well.

The company has two other locations in the works in Ocean County, at 175 Route 37 East in Toms River, and on Route 9 in Beachwood.

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