Tony’s Finer Foods

Good place to food shop. They are pretty competitive in price, and have a good selection of meats and produce, mostly because they are located in a big building. The parking lot is pretty big as well, and they always have plenty of shopping carts inside.

Produce section so fresh and so clean. Not crazy about the meat prices. Deli section always has some specials. Overall good place to grocery shop, conveniently close to other stores that are highly used.

I have been going to Tony’s for a number of years. I do like the variety of produce, canned goods and spices. However, I haven’t liked their meat or seafood for sometime. This weekend I made some blade lamb chops that were disgusting. These chops had so much fat and bone that there wasn’t anything to eat on them.
The chops plus salmon steaks that have consistently been sold with blood clots attached to them has just made Fair Play in Oak Lawn my new store for meat and fish.

I love Tonys! Everything is always so clean and the employees are fast. I haven’t had a problem since I’ve been going there. The prices are reasonable as well.

This is a great clean store. I really like going here they have everything I need. The people there are friendly and always helpful.

The good is that, depending on what you need for the week, you might find it here as a reasonable price. I never tried their fresh seafood but their meat at their butcher counter does just fine. Their deli is probably their best selection out of all the service oriented stations throughout the store. Fruit & veggies selection are decent enough — you’re not going get some exotic fruit that you haven’t heard off. When it comes to can goods, again, decent enough for a place that caters towards to the neighborhood that falls into the mixture of white American working class, the growing Middle East immigrants, Mexicans and Polish. If you want a wider selection of Eastern European items go to Shop & Save south of Harlem.
I never really had a true negative experience with the workers, be it at the butcher section, the deli or paying. The only experience that irritated me the wrong way, once I reflected on it, is when I asked twice, on separate visits, about canned good to the same employee he didn’t know where it was saying, with a smile and somewhat broken English «I don’t know. I just started here.» No, you did not «just started here» because I asked you a question two weeks ago AND your face registers in my memory bank since you were here last year as well. I will guess that is what management told him to say when people ask a question.
Note to management or whoever does the hiring: Make sure your employees, those stocking the shelves, know where things are. I don’t care if they’ve been working there a week. They should know where every single item is, and if they don’t at least send the customer to a person who does. Also hire people who can speak decent enough English besides the «I don’t know. I just started here,» line because I have a gut feeling that’s all he knows. You’re not in Mexico anymore, buddy. You get the American paycheck every two weeks, you get the better lifestyle, then at least attempt to speak the unofficial language and know where items are.

Been shopping at Tony’s Finer Foods for years. I like that they carry a wide selection of ethnic foods, produce and fruits are always fresh but lately I’ve been disappointment in the quality of the meat. Now I only shop for the sale items at Tony’s and go to Pete’s for my meat.

The cashiers and employees here have no idea what customer service means! The store is dirty and smelly, behind the deli counter it leaks water and smells very bad. I went here for produce because it was close by but I’ll not be going back.
Sucks five stars!

The prices are good and there is a good selection of items.

Went there today around 9.30 pm. The ladies who work at cash register dropped a whole container of guacamole on the floor right in front of me at a checkout line. it splashed on my clothes and my eyes and she did nothing! !! Not even say sorry to drop it or ask me if I’m ok. Poor customer service ever I have to ask her a towel to wipe it out of my face and my clothes. Never again going to shop here there’s plenty of grocery store around I would rather go somewhere else beside here

I live within walking distance from this store so it could have easily become my store for all my grocery needs. But that’s not gonna happen and here’s why…
I’ve been here a few times, the last two times I had a terrible experience at the deli counter. Same girl both times. The first time, I noticed she was rather pissy in general, no smile, did the bare bones of being a deli girl, and that was it. I didn’t think much of it as I had a busy day and didn’t give much attention to it.
The second time was last week… She called my number and asked what I wanted, I told her and before she proceeded to grab the meat to slice, she said to me «what else?’. I thought that rather odd because usually they do what you want as you go along but I blurted out salami to satisfy her. So as she was preparing my fourth item, I noticed she went over on the weight for all the items, not by much but over. As she goes to hand me the package she tells me that it was a little over and was that ok. I said yeah, that’s fine they’re all a little over but don’t worry about it. She that shoots me a dirty look which was even clearly noticeable to the man standing next to me and says, «No I didn’t!» I than repeated myself and showed her that indeed she did. She gives me another dirty look and the man standing next to me says, «Wow, she’s got a real attitude!» I sarcastically belt out to her, «Thank You so much and have a nice day!»
I decided to tell the manager as I think they should know when customers are being treated poorly. She was very nice and she told me that they’ve had a lot of complaints about her and that she would handle it. If that’s true why is she still employed here, I thought.
As a consumer, I like to shop where I feel like my business is appreciated. I equate attitude and poor customer service with lack of appreciation. Even if that means shopping at a store with higher prices or a further drive to a store that understands this, than that is what I will do.

The workers here are aweful! There was a lady in front of me trying to get through w her cart and there was a guy standing there w a mop she asked do I have to go through the other side he said well ya it’s wet! Unless u wanna slip and fall! Then rolled his eyes. Then at the meat counter the guy was like oh what number were u? I said 71 he said oh were on 73 he said nothing I stood there for a min then he asked me again what number I was I said 71 he rolled his eyes and let out a loud sigh. Then said what do u want?! Wow!

Bakery is great and they are always running great sales. Word to the wise make sure you check the expiration date. Just purchased a product 3 days ago that expired in October 2013.

Have crab legs on sale they look like they been re frozen 3 * the guys in the meat counter act like they don’t speak English when I asked where they putting any more fresh ones out he said no that was it the sale just started

FANTASTIC baked goods section! I came here to buy some desserts for school. Cheesecake, red velvet cake, and blueberry strudel — under $ 30, fed a small army, and everyone was happy!

I’ve been to this Tony’s a couple times. It’s about the same as the location in Melrose Park. The prices in general are okay. Everything on the shelves looks like there’s some fabulous sale going on, but it’s simply a dramatic advertising scheme. You’ll notice under the bright, larger print sales tag… that the «sale» price is EXACTLY THE SAME as the regular price on the shelve. For shame!
Fortunately, I still enjoy shopping at Tony’s. The produce is primarily was keeps me going back. The quality is great and the price is usually the cheapest around.
Kudos:
Trying to remember to guy at the deli/​meat counter… JOSE? He gave me great recommendations for deli meats and what cheese to go along with them. He was solid with his understanding of the various roast beef options.
Not so much:
Destiny, the cashier, was in another world when she was ringing up my groceries. I said hello to her and she seemed to have looked through me and didn’t say a word the entire time I was at the check out counter… even when she handed me the receipt.

If you like a store that doesn’t honor it’s own printed sales and if, when you protest, you enjoy having the cashier roll her eyes at you and call over a manager who tells you that «if you could read, you would understand», then Tony’s is definitely for you.

I like Tony’s. I used to love Tony’s before ‘Shop and Save’, but I still like it. The only issue I have here is their brand name product selection leaves a lot to be desired and the whole store smells like fish. I do not like that at all. I have not bought any seafood here. They do have a decent produce selection, nice dessert/​bakery items (think Caputos), and a competitively priced deli case. You can pick up Krakus ham for 3.99 a pound all the time, most popular sandwich cheese 2−4/lb and they have the best roast beef, made in house. It’s Tony’s Roast Beef au jus, if you get it on sale you’ll pay 4.00 a pound and you get a quart of juice per pound, or however much you want really. It is awesome beef. Beats any beef I’ve picked up anywhere else for sandwiches. Please remember, boil your juice, turn off the heat, then add your beef. I learned the hard way :(

This store have weekly specials that draw folks in from all over. I like a good deal like the rest of the world, BUT I wish this place would hire some more help for the deli counter. Last Saturday I was waiting for 30 minutes and almost forgot what I was waiting for and missed my turn DOH! All purpose market with meat, deli, produce and etc for all your needs. Also the checkers could be a little nicer. they are a bit snooty if you ask me. I mean you are a checkout girl at a grocery store. GET REAL!

This place is awesome! super cheap prices amazing deli! that thing goes on for miles I swear! Only thing is that apparently everyone knows the deli is good because you have to wait sometimes longer than 20 minutes, but it’s worth every penny!