Ben & Florentine Restaurants Inc. is a Canadian breakfast and lunch restaurant chain,"Les affaires vont bon train". Le Quotidien. serving around 4 million customers per year. The founders used characteristics from their own families to create the concept of the chain. Each Ben & Florentine restaurant is owned individually as a franchise."Le restaurant Ben & Florentine maintenant ouvert" . Cynthia Giguere-Martel, L'Express - Drummondville, 28 June 2012.
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.
The restaurant chain began by serving an extensive breakfast"My Montreal: Writer Steve Galluccio". Montreal Gazette, March 17, 2014 and lunch menu.MONTREAL Brunch and Breakfast » Ben and FlorentineOakville Eats: Ben & Florentine | Oakville News
In 2012 the chain expanded into Ontario,"Good morning Oakville". Inside Halton. and by 2014 there were 31 locations."Un 31e Ben et Florentine se construit rue de l’Aqueduc". Nouvelle Union. In 2015 the chain continued to expand with 43 franchised units."Ben et Florentine : un deuxième restaurant pour Andrey-Ann Marcotte" . La Nouvelle Union, Claude Thibodeau, 17 August 2015
In January 2016, Ben & Florentine opened its first restaurant in the province of Manitoba in the city of Winnipeg. 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.
Around 65 restaurants will be open by the end of 2020.
See also List of Canadian restaurant chains
References
External links Ben & Florentine