{"id":250178,"date":"2026-04-03T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:53:08","slug":"three-kekes-breakfast-cafe-locations-planned-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250178\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Keke\u2019s Breakfast Cafe locations planned nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Florida pancakes” at Keke’s Breakfast Cafe with fresh strawberries, banana, blueberries and powdered sugar, as seen February 27, 2024, in Jacksonville. Florida.<\/p>\n

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Neetu and Sanjeev Bali have owned and operated two Bay Area Denny\u2019s franchises since 2000.<\/p>\n

Now, they are looking to bring three locations of Florida-based Keke\u2019s Breakfast Cafe, a subsidiary of Denny\u2019s<\/a>, to the Sacramento region.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Denny\u2019s acquired Keke\u2019s in 2022, we have been keeping an eye on it because it sounds really tempting,\u201d Neetu Bali said.<\/p>\n

The Balis were attracted to the business because it\u2019s a \u201cday part\u201d business, unlike Denny\u2019s 24-hour concept. The restaurants open at 7 a.m. and close at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call it a \u2018bright restaurant\u2019 because it\u2019s daytime, and you can have life after work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Keke\u2019s serves classic American diner-style breakfast and lunch dishes<\/a>. Breakfast options include pancakes, waffles, omelets and eggs to order. Lunch fare includes sandwiches, paninis, rolls and salads. The restaurant offers coffee, tea, soft drinks and wine-based cocktails like mimosas, Bellinis and sangria.<\/p>\n

The locations have not been established yet. Working with the Keke\u2019s real estate team, the Balis are looking at locations in Sacramento, Roseville, Rocklin and Folsom, as well as other high-growth locations.<\/p>\n

\u201cSacramento diners are savvy and it\u2019s getting very densely populated. The city is growing, even the adjoining cities to Sacramento are growing. So we want to grow with them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

One of the tenets of the Keke\u2019s brand is the concept of a fresh start, whether just greeting a new day or starting a new chapter in life.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is welcome: experience, no experience, people looking for something quick, or even a second job. All training will be done in house. We will employ people that are willing to work and take pride in all aspects of the Keke\u2019s brand,\u201d Bali said.<\/p>\n

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Sean Timberlake is the food and dining reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He has been writing professionally for nearly 30 years, and about food for 20. A variety of well-known outlets have published his work, including Food Network, Cooking Channel, CNN, Sunset Magazine and SF Weekly.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Florida pancakes” at Keke’s Breakfast Cafe with fresh strawberries, banana, blueberries and powdered sugar, as seen February 27,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-250178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}