Cuppy’s Coffee to Open in Charlotte, NC

(FranchisePick.Com) According to the Charlotte Observer, Mohammed and Bouchra Iblidi are preparing to open Charlotte, NC’s first Cuppy’s Coffee:

A Cuppy’s Coffee Cafe will open this summer on North Tryon Street near Withrow Downs.

Work has started on the restaurant in the Withrow Downs Plaza, near Pavilion Boulevard, said franchise co-owner Mohammed Iblidi.

Iblidi hopes to open for business in early August.

“I think with the speedway and the Pavilion and all of the traffic there on North Tryon and the community there, there is demand for a cafe-style coffee shop,” Iblidi said.

Cuppy’s Coffee Cafes offer hot and cold coffee drinks and all-fruit smoothies, plus limited food items.

Iblidi said Cuppy’s lets franchise owners tailor their shops so they feel more like boutique coffee cafes than national chains.

“It definitely is going to be something that is a little bit more local, with more of a Charlotte feel than a standardized Starbucks or Caribou (Coffee),” he said.

Iblidi and his wife, Bouchra, co-own the Cuppy’s Coffee Cafe, Charlotte’s first.

He came to Charlotte about 15 years ago from Lansing, Mich. His wife came here eight years ago from Morocco. They live in University City.

The troubled Cuppy’s Coffee organization was acquired two months ago by Fransynergy amidst continuing complaints of franchises not opening in a timely fashion and franchisees not being able to get their refundable fees returned, many as high as $40,000.

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