{"id":415087,"date":"2026-09-30T21:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:54:38","slug":"southwest-florida-welcomes-7-brews-latest-coffee-stand-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415087\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida welcomes 7 Brew\u2019s latest coffee stand | Hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>7 Brew has opened its second Southwest Florida drive-thru coffee stand in south Fort Myers, with new locations planned in Punta Gorda and near Edison Mall in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>David Dorsey&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>7 Brew Drive Thru Coffee, which began in 2017 in Northwest Arkansas, has found a new home in Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>In less than a decade, the privately owned coffee company and franchise has grown from seven locations in 2020 to 38 in 2023 and now more than 850 across 38 states in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>7 Brew cut the ceremonial ribbon Sept. 29 for its 95th location in Florida and second in Southwest Florida. It\u2019s at 9101 College Parkway in south Fort Myers, near the Cape Coral Bridge and just east of McGregor Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>At the ceremony, 7 Brew Fort Myers presented a $6,662 check to Valerie\u2019s House to celebrate joining the community. The money was raised during the stand\u2019s Sept. 25-27 \u201cCaffeine for a Cause\u201d event, when customers could try a limited menu and make a donation of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great location,\u201d said Madden Montgomery, director of store openings. \u201cIt\u2019s the best of both worlds. We\u2019re right across the bridge on College Parkway here. So, we\u2019ve got Cape Coral residents coming across the bridge on their commute to work in the morning. We have really easy access for everybody in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfshorebusiness.com\/hospitality\/coffee-concepts-7-brew-ellianos-tim-hortons-make-plans\/article_b1092f8a-d2b4-4faa-aa64-62ec9b5fcd3b.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first regional 7 Brew<\/a> opened in September 2025 at 4275 Tamiami Trail in Port Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>More are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"7 Brew opens second Southwest Florida coffee stand\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abd2a098a433.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>7 Brew employees and community members gather for a ribbon-cutting Sept. 29 at the drive-thru coffee chain\u2019s new location at 9101 College Parkway in south Fort Myers. The company, which opened its first Southwest Florida stand in Port Charlotte in 2025, has two more regional locations planned in Punta Gorda and Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>                                    David Dorsey<\/p>\n<p>One is being planned for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfshorebusiness.com\/charlotte\/construction-approval-granted-for-punta-gorda-7-brew-coffee\/article_bb43400d-f7d2-495d-a581-5581ef0298c8.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1225 Tamiami Trail in Punta Gorda<\/a> and is slated to open in November.<\/p>\n<p>Site development is underway for one at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfshorebusiness.com\/hospitality\/brew-franchise-expands-with-new-location-near-edison-mall\/article_67fd3305-5459-4246-ad72-56d4a0d84815.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4102 Cleveland Ave., across from Edison Mall in Fort Myers.<\/a> That one is scheduled to open Nov. 30, Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p>Each location costs about $2 million to build and open, he said. The buildings are 510 square feet and are prefabricated in two pieces \u2014 the ground level and the \u201cmuffin top\u201d rooftop, which is used for storage \u2014 and then delivered to the site and installed.<\/p>\n<p>While a typical coffee shop can take several months to build, a 7 Brew site can go from a vacant concrete pad to an operational coffee \u201cstand,\u201d as the company prefers to call it, in 48 to 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>7 Brew offers up to 20,000 different drink combinations. The name comes from its \u201c7 original\u201d flavors: the Blondie, a caramel and vanilla breve; the Brunette, a hazelnut and caramel mocha; Smooth 7, a white chocolate and Irish cream breve; Cinnamon Roll, made with white chocolate and brown sugar cinnamon; White Chocolate Mocha; German Chocolate with coconut and caramel mocha; and Sweet &amp; Salty, a salted caramel and white chocolate breve.<\/p>\n<p>7 Brew also offers energy drinks; teas, chai and matcha; smoothies; shakes; lemonades; and 7 Fizz sodas.<\/p>\n<p>The first Lee County location hired about 90 employees. Some of them will shift to the new Fort Myers location after it opens. Most locations tend to have about 70 employees. Operating hours are 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from great drinks and a wide variety of products, we pride ourselves on customer interactions,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cWe really pride ourselves on the relationship that we create with our customers. We believe that customer service is sometimes more important than a drink. We believe in cultivating kindness and putting smiles on people\u2019s faces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 7 Brew has opened its second Southwest Florida drive-thru coffee stand in south Fort Myers, with new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[126191,209,211,210,11576,164448,897,1521],"class_list":["post-415087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-7-brew","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-coffee-shop","tag-drive-thru-coffee","tag-fort-myers","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415087","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=415087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}