Ben & Florentine

Ben & Florentine Restaurants Inc.
IndustryFood / Restaurants
Founded2008; 16 years ago (2008)
Headquarters
Saint-Laurent, Québec
,
Canada
Number of locations
60
Websitehttp://benandflorentine.com

Ben & Florentine Restaurants Inc. is a Canadian breakfast and lunch restaurant chain,[1] serving around 4 million customers per year. The founders used characteristics from their own families to create the concept of the chain.[2][clarification needed] Each Ben & Florentine restaurant is owned individually as a franchise.[3]

History

Ben & Florentine was founded in 2008 in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, and the first restaurant opened in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec on June 1, 2009. By 2011, the chain had opened 16 locations in the province of Quebec, Canada. The franchise has been a CFA member since 2010.[2]

The restaurant chain began by serving an extensive breakfast[4] and lunch menu.[5][6]

In 2012 the chain expanded into Ontario,[7] and by 2014 there were 31 locations.[8] In 2015 the chain continued to expand with 43 franchised units.[9][10]

In January 2016, Ben & Florentine opened its first restaurant in the province of Manitoba in the city of Winnipeg.[11][12] During 2016, Ben & Florentine kept growing in the Greater-Montréal area with the opening a franchise inside the tennis club of the nuns' island, and also including a location in Sherbrooke, Quebec.[13]

Around 65 restaurants will be open by the end of 2020.[14][15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Les affaires vont bon train". Le Quotidien.
  2. ^ a b Ramsey, Alison. "A Fresh & Modern Style". FranchiseCanada (2011 September): 81–83. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  3. ^ "Le restaurant Ben & Florentine maintenant ouvert" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Cynthia Giguere-Martel, L'Express - Drummondville, 28 June 2012.
  4. ^ "My Montreal: Writer Steve Galluccio". Montreal Gazette, March 17, 2014
  5. ^ MONTREAL Brunch and Breakfast » Ben and Florentine
  6. ^ Oakville Eats: Ben & Florentine | Oakville News
  7. ^ "Good morning Oakville". Inside Halton.
  8. ^ "Un 31e Ben et Florentine se construit rue de l’Aqueduc". Archived 2015-11-22 at the Wayback Machine Nouvelle Union.
  9. ^ "Ben et Florentine : un deuxième restaurant pour Andrey-Ann Marcotte" Archived 2015-11-22 at the Wayback Machine. La Nouvelle Union, Claude Thibodeau, 17 August 2015
  10. ^ "Ben & Florentine Restaurants Inc". Look for a Franchise in Canada. Archived from the original on 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  11. ^ "La chaîne Ben & Florentine s'implante à Winnipeg". TVA Nouvelles. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  12. ^ "Retail rebound: 18 months after Target's exodus, Winnipeg's vacancy rate is finally decreasing". www.winnipegfreepress.com. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  13. ^ "Ouverture du restaurant BEN & FLORENTINE | Club de Tennis de l'Île des Soeurs". tennis-ids.com (in French). Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  14. ^ "Ben & Florentine Breakfast/Lunch - 50 locations were opened by the end of 2016". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  15. ^ "Ben et Florentine à Sherbrooke en 2016 | Mélanie Noël | Économie et Innovation". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2016-06-10.
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