On the heels of multiple awards at this year’s New York BagelFest, Jeff’s Bagel Run has announced plans for another location, this one in Clermont.
The news comes as part of the company’s continued aggressive growth strategy and is likely to delight Jeff and Danielle Perera’s earliest customers.
“A Clermont store is something they’ve been asking for forever,” Jeff Perera told the Orlando Sentinel, recalling a time during the company’s earliest days when he drove four bagels to a single customer in Clermont.
“I was new. I was young. I was hungry,” he says. “Taking four bagels to Clermont cost me more than I made on the sale of the bagels, but it was about getting good bagels into the hands of people who love and appreciate them, and I think that by doing that, we started to build a foundation of customers who are now driving to our Ocoee location on weekends to get bagels. This store is going to meet their needs.”
The 1,200-square-foot space will be located at 16530 FL-50, right in the heart of the Clermont community and just west of their original location in Ocoee.
Several other locations are still in the works. Perera expects the Winter Park and Celebration stores to be the next two open.
“Both are under construction. We’re thinking last week in December, first week of January. O-Town West and Oviedo in late January.”
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The Clermont shop, he projects, will open its doors in about six months, but there are plenty of fun things going on as they head into the holiday season.
“We’re coming up on a holiday beverage release for our shops,” Perera said. “Our coffee profiles this winter will be salted caramel, gingerbread, peppermint, and we’re going to really highlight our banana bread cold brew because it’s just so delicious.”
A cookie butter cream cheese is in the works, too, along with another exciting drop.
“I’m testing some gingerbread bagels this week,” he teased. “I think it might be a delicious flavor for the season and certainly not one you’d find at a traditional bagel shop.”
Jeff’s Bagel Run has two stores open: Ocoee and College Park, Orlando. Perera is eager to add another to the growing family.
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