Friendly’s has revamped a coffee module with new brewing equipment, aloft peculiarity beans and a initial line of iced coffee, a family-dining sequence said.
The new coffee is done from 100% Arabica beans from Colombia, Brazil and Central America granted by spit SD Coffee Tea, that also purchased new Bunn bottle brewers for Friendly’s roughly 175 restaurants, according to a Friendly’s representative.
The new iced coffee is accessible in regular, decaf, French vanilla and hazelnut. Pricing is during a option of franchisees, though during a Friendly’s in Springfield, Mass., nearby a chain’s Wilbraham, Mass. Headquarters, prohibited coffee is $1.49, unflavored iced coffee is $2.59 and a flavored coffees are $2.89.
“Our consumers spoke and we listened,” Dennis Pfaff, Chief Operating Officer of FIC Restaurants Inc., a franchisor of Friendly’s Restaurants and a auxiliary of Sun Capital Partners Inc., pronounced in a statement. “We engrossed feedback from a guest over a years on a aged coffee and are over vehement to hurl out a much-improved coffee program, done with new machines from high peculiarity beans. We demeanour brazen to continue improving and elaborating with a customers’ changing tastes.”
Friendly’s is only a latest family-dining sequence to redo a coffee module as consumer direct for improved versions of a libation has increased.
Denny’s introduced cold decoction coffee to a some-more than 1,600 domestic locations final year, and IHOP upgraded a coffee pots it places on tables during a 1,700 restaurants so they are improved insulated and keep a splash prohibited longer.
Friendly’s has been struggling financially, and in Apr it sealed 23 locations.
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