Mr. Chalek, in conjunction with other officers of the company and the many members of the co-op decided to form a corporation, Associated Food Stores (AFS) and build a warehouse and office complex at 179-45 Brinkerhoff Avenue, in Jamaica, Queens, replete with a loading dock that was served by a stretch of railroad track. They could now receive rail cars full of product and store it in their new, much larger warehouse. They decided that the butcher business within most of the stores would be concessions, but hired an expert to run the meat department of the corporation, which distributed the meat to those concessions within the member Associated Food Stores.
Mr. Chalek, along with other company officers and co-op members, decided to establish a corporation named Associated Food Stores (AFS) and construct a warehouse and office complex at 179-45 Brinkerhoff Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, complete with a loading dock served by railroad tracks. They could now receive rail cars filled with products and store them in their new, much larger warehouse. They chose to have butchery businesses within most of the stores as concessions, but hired an expert to manage the meat department of the corporation, which supplied meat to those concessions within the member-associated food stores.