He was the co-founder of Gelson's Markets, a supermarket chain in Southern California, and was its chairman until 2014.
[3] During World War II, he served at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton for 33 months.
[3] He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a bachelor of science in business administration in 1949.
[3] Briskin co-founded Gelson's Markets, a supermarket chain in Southern California, in 1951.
[2] He served as the chief executive officer and president of the Arden Group (a holding company for Gelson's Markets which includes two subsidiaries, Arden-Mayfair and Mayfair Reality) from 1978 to 2014, and as its chairman from 1994 to 2014.