Overview

• Saul Zabar died Tuesday at 97, with his daughter confirming his death to the New York Times.
• He joined the family business in 1950 after his father died and led Zabar’s for roughly seven decades.
• Under his stewardship, the store consolidated into a roughly 20,000-square-foot flagship at Broadway and West 80th Street with reported annual sales near $55 million.
• The market became known for smoked fish, house-roasted coffee, breads and hundreds of cheeses, serving about 40,000 customers weekly at its peak.
• He partnered with his brother Stanley and longtime associate Murray Klein, while younger brother Eli launched his own East Side shops in 1973, and two of Saul’s children, Aaron and Ann, now hold leadership roles at Zabar’s.