Alessi Bakery<\/a> owner Phil Alessi Jr.<\/p>\nThe new location is an 18,000-square-foot open kitchen concept that allows customers to view their food and desserts being prepared. There will be an expanded bakery, a cafe, a full-service community bar along with wood stone oven pizzas and rotisserie chicken.<\/p>\n
Alessi, a fourth-generation owner, said they were ready to expand six years ago, but they delayed those plans after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the owner said this is the right time to move to a larger location. He said updates to their century-old bakery are critical to reaching a younger customer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have our base of customers and they\u2019re great and very loyal,\u201d Alessi said. \u201cBut what we really want to capture is the younger generation. They don\u2019t really know Alessi. And now we\u2019ve made the space with the consideration of the newer generations, like the outlets where they can plug their phones in and computers, the Wi-Fi with the internet, and we have a lot of areas where they can do so and just kind of hang out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chrissy Palmer has worked at Alessi Bakery for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very exciting,\u201d Palmer said.<\/p>\n
She said her favorite section of the new location is the cafe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to be selling Acai bowls and smoothies and shakes,\u201d Palmer said.<\/p>\n
With the larger location, Alessi will need more employees. They are hiring 40 additional workers.<\/p>\n
The old Alessi location will close its doors Saturday at 6 p.m. There will be a grand opening at the new location on Wednesday, April 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0A popular Tampa bakery, established in 1912, is moving to a larger location to reach a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6506,2031,274,558,4252,575,14608,276,115,135,137,136,278,17141,14104,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-225593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-food","9":"tag-app-local-business","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-dalia-dangerfield","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-food-and-dining","15":"tag-hillsborough-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-tampa","18":"tag-tampa-headlines","19":"tag-tampa-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topic-food","22":"tag-topic-latest-local-business-stories","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225593","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=225593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}