What’s behind the construction the barricades near McDonald’s at Clovis and Shaw avenues?
Construction vehicles are digging up dirt for the next new chain coffee drive-thru. It’s not a Dutch Bros, not a Starbucks, but a 7 Brew Drive Thru Coffee.
It’s a drive-thru-only coffee spot at the southwest corner, built in an empty parking lot between McDonald’s and El Pollo Loco.
Its Clovis location will be one of the first in California.
The Arkansas-based company has been exploding with new locations across the Southwest, particularly in Texas and Arizona. It has more than 900 locations in 38 states.
The Clovis location will be 910 square feet with a double drive-thru lane that can hold up to 13 cars, according to a permit approved by the Clovis Planning Commission. Employees walk out to cars to take orders and deliver drinks to keep the line moving.
It will have outdoor seating, but no indoor seating.
If the construction process is anything like the location in the works for Visalia, a small prefabricated building will be lifted into place by a crane.
So what is 7 Brew?
The company has a concept similar to Dutch Bros business model. It offers highly customizable drinks, made with espresso, energy drinks, half-and-half and all kinds of sweet flavors.
Its most popular drink is the Blondie, made with espresso, half-and-half, vanilla and caramel syrup. It can be served hot, iced or “frozen chiller.” That last one is a blended iced drink that tops out at 760 calories.
At 7 Brew, baristas are called “brewistas,” (not to be confused with Dutch Bros “broistas) and its tagline is “Cultivate Kindness.”
The coffee drive-thru also has milkshakes on the menu, including an orange sherbet, salted caramel and rocky road shakes.
Messages to 7 Brew about when it would open were not immediately returned.
A 7 Brew Coffee is pictured here is a location in Camden, South Carolina. Photo by Christina Trainor The State
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Bethany Clough covers restaurants and retail for The Fresno Bee. A reporter for more than 20 years, she now works to answer readers’ questions about business openings, closings and other business news. She has a degree in journalism from Syracuse University and her last name is pronounced Cluff.