Grand Rental Station

About

Fritz and Bruce originally owned and operated a full-service restaurant and catering business. Along with our catering orders, our customers started to ask for tent, table and chair rentals for outdoor events. To meet our customers needs, we began sub-renting from stores in Cape Girardeau and St. Louis. We then saw the potential for a rental store in our market, but we felt strongly that a full line store would be the only way it would be profitable. We did our research, set up a business plan and opened our store in a rented facility in March 1988. Our landlord saw our business grow and decided to triple our rent. In 1991 we moved to a new location that we build specifically for our rental store, and the rest is histor