{"id":431271,"date":"2026-10-18T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431271\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:14:11","slug":"jeffs-bagel-run-expands-to-bloomingdale-with-local-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431271\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff\u2019s Bagel Run Expands To Bloomingdale With Local Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Rob Shuffield, opening Jeff\u2019s Bagel Run in Bloomingdale Square brings a longtime restaurant dream back to familiar ground. The 1990 Brandon High School graduate and his wife, Teresa Shuffield, celebrated the shop\u2019s grand opening on October 2, bringing scratch-made bagels, spreads and coffee to a community they already serve through their Nothing Bundt Cakes bakeries in Winthrop and Brandon.<\/p>\n

Located at 875 E. Bloomingdale Ave. in Brandon, between Bealls and EOS Fitness, the new shop puts the couple close to the families and schools that drew Rob to Bloomingdale Square.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the moment we started preparing to open in Brandon, the community has been incredibly welcoming,\u201d co-founder Jeff Perera said.<\/p>\n

Customers can watch staff mix and shape dough, then boil and bake bagels in small batches throughout the day. Fresh batches keep coming through the morning, with no toasters behind the counter.<\/p>\n

\u201cFresh baked bagels don\u2019t need to be toasted,\u201d Perera said.<\/p>\n

Spreads include savory roasted jalape\u00f1o and chive and onion, plus sweet cake batter and banana pudding. Hot coffee, iced lattes, cold brew, teas and refreshers round out the menu, whether customers stop for one bagel or pick up a box to share.<\/p>\n

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The rotating Bagel of the Day began with jalape\u00f1o and blueberry, two additional doughs Perera knew how to make. When those became regular offerings, customers still wanted a daily special, pushing the team to develop new varieties and bring back favorites.<\/p>\n

Perera\u2019s bagel-making journey began after he lost his job in 2019. His wife, Danielle, encouraged him to make the bagels they struggled to find near their Central Florida home. He tested recipes until friends and neighbors began ordering.<\/p>\n

The home project became Jeff\u2019s Bagel Run. The Pereras opened their first storefront in Ocoee in 2021, using the recipe developed in their kitchen.<\/p>\n

The company reached 41 shops with the Bloomingdale and Cumming, Georgia, openings, with Plantation next on its expansion schedule.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see how far the brand has come in a relatively short amount of time,\u201d Perera said.<\/p>\n

Franchise owners and their teams receive extensive training to carry that approach into new shops. Technology alerts bakers when a flavor runs low, helping replenish the selection while keeping production on-site.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur system ensures bagels are made fresh and replenished as needed,\u201d Perera said.<\/p>\n

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For the Shuffields, fresh dough is familiar territory. Their restaurant career began long before Jeff\u2019s, and Rob\u2019s ownership ambitions started even earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to own a Beef \u2018O\u2019 Brady\u2019s franchise since I was in 10th grade,\u201d Rob said. \u201cWe would go there after our tennis matches in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

He carried that ambition to the University of Florida, where restaurant work introduced him to Teresa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worked in restaurants to gain experience and met Teresa at UF,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A CiCi\u2019s Pizza franchise owner recruited Rob from Don Pablo\u2019s and explained that ownership could be within reach. Rob and Teresa joined CiCi\u2019s to learn the business and qualify to open their own restaurant.<\/p>\n

Three years later, they became owners. Rob was 29, and Teresa was 25. They later moved to Virginia, opening their first location there in 2001 and expanding to 10 over eight years before returning to Florida.<\/p>\n

A fellow CiCi\u2019s owner introduced them to Nothing Bundt Cakes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTeresa and I signed up and opened our first location January 2016,\u201d Rob said.<\/p>\n

They expect to open their 10th and 11th bakeries this October and November. Another business connection introduced them to bagels.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy contractor told me he was building some Jeff\u2019s Bagel Runs and he wanted to pick my brain about opening his own,\u201d Rob said.<\/p>\n

The brand\u2019s following encouraged them to explore it.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone in Orlando loves Jeff\u2019s, and so Teresa and I opened three this year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

They opened in The Villages in April, Gainesville in July and now Bloomingdale. Rob sees a link between their scratch-made pizza kitchens and production at Jeff\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Jeff\u2019s Bagel Run is open daily from 6:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Visit www.jeffsbagelrun.com<\/a> or call 656-272-5774 for information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Rob Shuffield, opening Jeff\u2019s Bagel Run in Bloomingdale Square brings a longtime restaurant dream back to familiar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-431271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431271","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=431271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}