Coffee lovers can look forward to a New England coffee chain\u2019s first local spot opening next month.<\/p>\n
Identity Coffee Co. will hold a ribbon cutting at 9 a.m. and fully open by 10 a.m. March 14 at 855 S. Broadway in Wind Gap, the Slate Belt Chamber of Commerce announced<\/a>, replacing a former Dunkin\u2019 location<\/a>.<\/p>\n Menu items will include coffee, refreshers, seasonal drinks such as pumpkin spice, bagels, doughnuts, sandwiches, soups and salads.<\/p>\n Franchisee Jason Velazquez said the location will open 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. all week, and that he plans to open other locations in Macungie and Easton.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a huge relief, to be at the end of it,\u201d he said of finally opening (Velazquez said last year he hoped to open in January). He added that he was excited to engage with the community.<\/p>\n A portion of Identity Coffee\u2019s proceeds go to supporting rescue missions for survivors of slavery and human trafficking. This is the chain\u2019s first location outside New England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coffee lovers can look forward to a New England coffee chain\u2019s first local spot opening next month. Identity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-125048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}