A Charlotte-area coffee shop plans to open three cafés, including one with a bakery, in the Charleston area.
Summit Coffee is scouting sites across the Lowcountry with the new shops slated for the Charleston peninsula, Mount Pleasant and North Charleston, according to CEO Brian Helfrich. All of the new locations will be corporate-owned stores.
Once the Charleston-area sites have been selected, he expects it will take about three or four months before they are ready to open. He's targeting later this year or 2024 to have the sites customer-ready.
Helfrich first looked at the Lowcountry two years ago for new stores but decided to hold off on expanding at the time.
"It is an awesome destination, but it also has a great culinary scene," he said. "We want to be part of that."
The company, founded in Davidson just north of Charlotte in 1998, currently has 10 locations in Asheville, Atlanta and Charlotte, with six others under development in the Queen City and the Georgia capital city.
The new Lowcountry sites will bring the company's footprint across three states to 19 shops.
"We're immensely excited to deepen our footprint in our core markets in the coming months and years," Helfrich said. "Our focus has been to thoughtfully expand opportunities for more customers to interact with Summit, in a way that ensures we're still delivering a remarkable café experience."
He added, "We're now prepared to nearly double our café count by growth in markets we're already in — Charlotte and Atlanta — and a market we've long desired to enter in Charleston."
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