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Robert S. “Bobby” Ukrop is emphatic: His family’s Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods is not getting back into the grocery business.

Instead, the company wants to open a food hall in Henrico County to sell much of its full lineup of bakery goods and prepared foods and to provide an outlet for its growing catering business. The shop would make and sell the famous Ukrop’s fried chicken and potato wedges — two items that Ukrop said are the top requests since the family sold its grocery business in 2010.

Plans call for turning the former sanctuary building of Bon Air Baptist Church’s Village campus at Horsepen Road and Patterson Avenue into the yet-unnamed bakery and food shop.

“This is not going to be a grocery store,” said Ukrop, the company’s chairman and CEO. “This is just a little store.”

His son-in-law Scott Aronson, who is president of Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods, said the 5,200-square-foot food hall would be an outlet for the company’s food products to connect directly with customers while making it easier for them to pick up products.