Ben & Florentine

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Ben & Florentine Restaurants Inc.
IndustryFood / Restaurants
Founded2008;15 years ago (2008)
Headquarters
Saint-Laurent, Québec
,
Canada
Number of locations
60
Website http://benandflorentine.com

Ben & Florentine 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] Each Ben & Florentine restaurant is owned individually as a franchise. [3]

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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]

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