Dutch Bros. targets new location for Orlando site
Dutch Bros. Inc. has confirmed its first Florida store in Orlando, but in a different location from where it first looked.
The Grants Pass, Oregon-based coffee chain (NYSE: BROS) will open a location in Orlando developer Unicorp National Developments Inc.’s O-Town West at the southeast corner of Daryl Carter Parkway and Apopka Vineland Road, spokeswoman Rilynn Davis told Orlando Business Journal.
The chain plans to open in late 2023 or early 2024 at that site, and more details will be revealed at a later date. Unicorp Senior Associate Christian Nacorda represented Unicorp, while Robert Holihan and Jason Kaiser with SRS represented Dutch Bros.
Dutch Bros. previously considered a drive-thru and patio in Seminole County at 3340 E. Semoran Blvd. in Apopka, but is no longer considering that site. Portland-based Cole Valley Partners was the development partner for that proposal.
Each store usually has 40-50 employees, with four to eight working at any given time, per the Seminole County application from Cole Valley Partners.
Dutch Bros., which had $498 million in 2021 revenue, opened 65 new stores in the first half of 2022 and expects to reach 130 by the end of the year, sister paper Portland Business Journal reported. The company operates 603 locations in 11 states. Currently, the closest location to Orlando is in Tennessee, more than 500 miles away.
The menu for Dutch Bros. includes hot or cold coffee — flavored cold brews, freezes and breves — as well as tea, chai, smoothies, shakes, lemonade, cocoa, soda, energy drinks and snacks like chocolate chip muffin tops, orange cranberry muffin tops, lemon poppyseed muffin tops and granola bars. Featured flavors include caramel pumpkin brulee coffee, sweater weather chai and more.
Other coffee shops that plan to enter Central Florida include:
- Double O’s Coffee, which plans to open first brick-and-mortar shops in Orlando, with six area locations in the works.
- Stemma Craft Coffee, which is slated to debut its first U.S. shop in Orlando.