{"id":103888,"date":"2026-01-03T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:09:11","slug":"karma-juice-bar-eatery-looking-to-expand-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103888\/","title":{"rendered":"Karma Juice Bar &#038; Eatery Looking to Expand in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karma Juice Bar &amp; Eatery, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/karmaeatery.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Where Good Food, Kind Vibes, and Community Come Together<\/a>,\u201d has built a following in the Greater Tampa area, where it currently has two locations, in Clearwater and in St. Petersburg. Almost 3 years ago (time flies!), in January 2023, What Now <a href=\"https:\/\/whatnow.com\/tampa\/restaurants\/karma-juice-bar-to-open-downtown-st-pete-location\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on plans for the brand to open its St. Pete location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been around for nine years now,\u201d founder Josie Barber told What Now at the time, describing restaurant\u2019s journey: a expansion to several new locations came up against the difficult COVID-19 period\u2019s labor shortage, leading to the closures of two stores. It was a sad development for a brand that had maintained\u2014and has since maintained\u2014its loyal following.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hear the same thing out of everyone: \u2018I just can\u2019t find anything like this,\u2019\u201d Steve, Karma\u2019s general manager, told What Now in January 2023. \u201cWe make everything in-house. Everything: our salad dressings, our peanut butter, our almond butter, all the juices, teas and coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the rumor is that Karma Juice Bar, which offers cold-pressed juices, a\u00e7ai bowls, salads, sandwiches, and more, has a new location in the works, once again in St. Pete. What Now spoke with founder Josie Barber on Friday. At this time, Barber could confirm only that Karma Juice Bar &amp; Eatery is indeed in the process of procuring a space. Further details about site cannot be shared just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes peeled for more details soon!<\/p>\n<p>You can keep up with Karma Juice Bar &amp; Eatery news by following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/karmajuicebar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@karmajuicebar<\/a> on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karma Juice Bar &amp; Eatery, \u201cWhere Good Food, Kind Vibes, and Community Come Together,\u201d has built a following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-103888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}