Sarah Vickers will leave her post as director of operations at The Market at Busch’s Grove this Friday, she just told us. “I’m going to start at County Market in Quincy in the middle of April,” Vickers said.
She’s worked at the Ladue grocery since it opened. Why the change? “They offered me an opportunity to go over there and work on their deli operation,” noted Vickers. “They’re a slightly bigger chain, so I thought I would take the opportunity to move on.”
Vickers sketched a few details about her successor, Kelley Bryan: “She was an executive assistant for a long time, and she’s at L’École Culinaire right now. And she’s going to come over here and replace me and use both sets of those skills.
Vickers paused to reflect on her time at The Market at Busch’s Grove. “It’s certainly been very exciting,” she said. “We’ve got a lot accomplished over here. I think we’ve really set out to do what we aimed to: integrate the local and fresh aspects of the food that you can find at the farmers’ markets into a grocery-store environment.
“We’ve certainly had our challenges, but everything is still working out well, and I wish them all the best of luck in the future.”
This article appears in Mar 1-31, 2010.