Seafood Store

What Seafood Store does

The Seafood Shop is a privately held, family-owned fresh seafood market and take-out restaurant founded in 1975 and operated from a single storefront at 356 Montauk Highway in Wainscott, New York, serving the Hamptons and East End communities. The business combines a fresh-fish retail counter with a prepared-foods operation that includes daily specials, a take-out menu, soups, salads, wraps, sandwiches, steamed lobster, and a wide range of prepared specialties such as chowders, bisques, crab cakes, poke, paella, and take-out clambakes. Differentiators emphasized by the company include 50 years of continuous operation, made-from-scratch soups, no microwaves on premises, a dedicated gluten-free fryer using rice flour, and wild-caught fish options.

The company generates revenue through three channels: in-store retail seafood sales, on-site and take-out prepared-food sales (with menu items priced roughly between $9 and $36.95, including a $23.95 lunch platter and a $36.95 lobster roll), and event catering for private functions with permits held from Southampton Town and East Hampton Town. The customer base is primarily Hamptons and East End local residents, supplemented by seasonal summer tourists and per-event catering customers. The go-to-motion is local and relationship-driven, supported by a daily email-specials newsletter, a WordPress website, and customer testimonials/reviews. There is no disclosed revenue, no external funding, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no digital/AI capabilities; operations are run by a small team (reported at 7 employees) out of one location.

Name

Seafood Store

Legal name

The Seafood Shop

Website

https://theseafoodshop.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Seafood Shop is a family-owned fresh seafood market and take-out restaurant in Wainscott, New York, founded in 1975, serving Hamptons and East End residents, summer tourists, and private-event catering customers with retail fish, prepared foods, and catering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Seafood Retail & Take-Out Restaurant

NAICS

Fish and Seafood Retailers (445250), Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (311710)

SIC

Retail-Grocery Stores (5411), Retail-Eating Places (5812), Prepared Fresh Or Frozen Fish & Seafoods (2092)

akta.pro primary industry

Seafood Markets & Fishmongers (CRAHAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Seafood Fast Casual (THAFABAJ), Shellfish Value-Added Products (Shucked Oysters, Mussels, Clams; Cooked/Marinated) (AFANALAK)

Keywords

• Fresh seafood retail
• Take-out seafood
• Seafood market
• Event catering services
• Prepared seafood meals

Headquarters

HQ city

Wainscott

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Seafood Shop is a fresh seafood market and take-out restaurant located in Wainscott, NY (Hamptons), selling retail fresh fish, shellfish, and lobster alongside prepared foods such as chowders, bisques, salads, wraps, sandwiches, lobster rolls, and made-from-scratch specialties. It also provides private event catering across the Hamptons and East End of Long Island. The business has operated from a single storefront for over 50 years and is open seven days a week on a seasonal schedule.

Product overview

The Seafood Shop is a fresh seafood market and restaurant located in Wainscott, NY (Hamptons area) that operates as a single unified retail and dining establishment. The core offering is the Fresh Fish Market providing retail seafood products, complemented by a full-service restaurant with Daily Specials, a Take Out Menu, and Event Catering services. The product portfolio includes various soups (chowders and bisques), salads, wraps and spring rolls, prepared specialties (platters, crab cakes, poke, paella, clambake), sandwiches, lobsters, and starters. The business operates seasonally with extended summer hours and serves the greater Hamptons and East End communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fresh Fish Market

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• East Hampton Seafood: Hamptons-area fresh seafood market and prepared-foods retailer serving an overlapping affluent East End customer base. Directly comparable local seafood retail format in the same geography.
• Saltwater Seafood Market: Regional fresh-seafood market and prepared-foods retailer operating in a similar single- or limited-storefront format in another coastal market. Comparable specialty seafood retail model but outside the Hamptons geography.

Emerging players

• Fulton Fish Market (online): Online specialty seafood retailer descended from the historic NYC Fulton Market. Comparable curated fresh and frozen seafood assortment with nationwide shipping — represents the digital-native competitor the Wainscott store does not currently face locally but increasingly does at the customer level.
• Browne Trading Company: Specialty seafood retailer/wholesaler with storefront and nationwide online shipping. Comparable curated, high-end seafood assortment; broader distribution reach than a single Hamptons storefront.

Direct peers

• Lobster Place: Chelsea Market-based seafood market, raw bar, and prepared-seafood counter in NYC. Directly comparable fresh-and-prepared seafood retail format targeting walk-in and event customers.
• Russ & Daughters: Iconic NYC specialty seafood/appetizing retailer (smoked fish, caviar, prepared platters). Comparable single-format specialty seafood retailer with strong brand equity, take-out counter, and catering operations.
• Citarella: New York City seafood market and prepared-foods retailer with sit-down dining and catering. Closely comparable operating model — fresh fish counter plus prepared meals and specialty platters serving an affluent coastal customer base.
• Pike Place Fish Market: Iconic Seattle seafood market with fresh counter and nationwide shipping. Comparable destination seafood retail format with strong local brand and shipped-product line.

Broad incumbents

• Whole Foods Market: National premium grocer with strong seafood counter and prepared-seafood program. Overlaps in customer demographic and product mix but operates broadly across all grocery categories rather than specializing in seafood.
• Fairway Market: NYC-area premium grocer historically known for its seafood counter. Comparable customer overlap in the affluent Northeast metro/seafood shopper but with a full-grocery operating model.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/seafood-store

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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