BERNE — The Fox Creek Market, a long-time community center with a recent turnstile of ownership, has re-opened. Owner Ardi Cecunjanin and his family have added booths and more dining tables to the general store and serve a full menu of northern Italian cuisine.

“It’s really by luck,” said Fahreta Altekin, Ardi’s sister. “My dad drove through here just after the previous owner left in November. My dad said, ‘This place is perfect.’”

“The community has welcomed us with open arms,” said Ardi Cecunjanin. “We didn’t expect this kind of support. It usually takes time and effort to build up relationships. It feels like we grew up here.”

At 34, he grew up in the restaurant business. His parents, Ifeta and Mike Cecunjanin, came to America from Montenegro. The extended family has 64 restaurants altogether, said Ardi Cecunjanin.

He is getting help with his restaurant from his parents; his sister Amira; and his brother, Rush, as well as from his sister Fahreta and her husband, Nico Altekin.

Ms. Altekin is studying to be a nurse. “When I have school, my husband comes for me,” she said, as he fills in her work shifts.

The market has seen a series of short-time owners in recent years. Tammy and Ray Weiler and their family had it last. The Weilers said this summer, with work on the bridge over the Fox Creek closing off traffic, revenues decreased by 75 percent; even when the bridge re-opened, the Weilers said, business didn’t pick up enough to be sustainable.

“I think we’re here to stay,” said Ms. Altekin.

The market re-opened last Wednesday. “We finished cleaning and stocking at 4 p.m. and said, ‘Let’s open right now,” Ms. Altekin recalled. “I put up a sign that said, ‘Open at 5,’ and several people came in.”

Ardi Cecunjanin said he decided to keep the name Fox Creek Market. “Everybody remembers where it is,” he said.

The the two-story building, with a front porch that looks out on Helderberg Trail, sits on property bordering the Fox Creek.

“It’s so pretty,” said Ms. Altekin. “I was teasing my dad. I told him, ‘In the summer, you’ll find me down by the creek.’”

The market is now offering a variety of chicken dishes; seafood dishes including clams and mussels; and a daily lunch special, Cecunjanin said.

The menu also features New York-style pizza, which can be eaten at the market or ordered as a take-out meal. “It’s hand-tossed and baked in a brick oven with no preservatives,” Cecunjanin said.

Prices range from $5.99 for a sandwich to $13.99 for a meal.

A new feature will be a window that opens to the porch where customers can buy ice cream: soft-serve, including frozen yogurt, will come in six flavors and hard ice cream will be available in 35 flavors.

“We wanted to give them a little bit of everything,” said Cecunjanin. So patrons can enjoy “classical dining,” he said, or “grab a quick slice to go.” The market also offers “meals on the go,” he said, which are prepared in-house every day. Dishes including pasta, chicken, and seafood are packaged in individual portions, ranging from $3.99 to $10.99. “When they get home, they just put it in the microwave,” said Cecunjanin, noting the meals come with heating directions.

The market takes requests for its menu, too, he said.

It also provides general-store items, including newspapers, cigarettes, paper products, dog and cat foods, condiments like mustard and mayonnaise, spices like salt and pepper, candies, cookies, crackers, cereal, and pasta.

“So you don’t have to drive 10 miles for something like paper towels,” said Altekin.

Right now, with the market just opening, it is staffed with “strictly family,” said Cecunjanin. The family works long hours since the market is open seven days a week, from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. every day. “We’ve been doing this such a long time,” said Cecunjanin, “it goes quick with us. Everybody knows what they have to do, no questions asked.”