{"id":490813,"date":"2026-10-09T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490813\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:02:09","slug":"coffee-chain-with-700-plus-locations-plans-one-of-its-first-california-sites-in-salinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490813\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee chain with 700-plus locations plans one of its first California sites in Salinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news-team\/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc\" aria-label=\"Ricardo Tovar profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791583329_698_c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc_1714417997.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ricardo Tovar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>SALINAS, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A new 7 Brew Coffee drive-thru is moving forward at the former KFC site on South Main Street in Salinas.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Permits were recently approved, and demolition work is underway.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Arkansas-based coffee chain has not announced an opening date for the Salinas location.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">It is one of several 7 Brew projects proposed or approved in California this year, including locations in Northern California.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The company\u2019s store locator does not currently list any open locations in California.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">A third-party directory says 7 Brew has more than 700 locations nationwide, concentrated largely in the South and Midwest. The directory says it is not affiliated with 7 Brew, so that count has not been independently verified.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The coffee chain started in 2017 and offers energy drinks, fizz sodas, smoothies, lemonades, coffee, tea and other specialty beverages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALINAS, Calif. \u2014 A new 7 Brew Coffee drive-thru is moving forward at the former KFC site on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191446,7,9,8,115012,1804,191451,191448,191449,139658,5936,11037,47387,191450,31954,191447,72],"class_list":["post-490813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-brew-project","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-coffee-chain","tag-company","tag-energy-drink","tag-first-california-site","tag-fizz-soda","tag-lemonade","tag-location","tag-salinas","tag-smoothie","tag-south-main-street","tag-tea","tag-third-party-directory","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490813","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=490813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}