Hill’s Quality Seafood in Media Borough runs its business the old-fashioned way.
Around since 1975, you won’t find online ordering or delivery apps here. Instead, customers walk in and are overwhelmed with displays of fresh seafood, writes Denali Sagner for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
A friendly face behind the counter chats a bit with the customers while filling their order.
And that’s it.
“We value customer service,” said Alexandra Grogan, the president and CEO of Hill’s. “That’s really how Bernie was able to build the brand and the reputation.”
Bernie Grogan opened Hill’s Media location in 1975 while still a senior at Widener University.
His daughter, Alexandra, took over the family business after he died in 2024. Today, there are four retail stores and a wholesale/warehousing operation.
Bernie Grogan “grew up in seafood,” Alexandra said, starting out working for his uncle, who owned Mainline Seafood in Ardmore.
For years, he drove to South Philadelphia seafood markets each morning, bringing fish to his stores to fillet, clean, and display for customers.
As the business expanded, he bought the Liberty Fish Building in South Philadelphia in 1994 and opened Lawrence Street Seafood, a wholesaler and warehouse that now supplies the four Hill’s stores.
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