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85°C Bakery Cafe was founded with the philosophy of 5-star quality at affordable prices. In 2003, the founder of 85°C Bakery Cafe, Mr. Cheng-Hsueh Wu visited a cafe in a 5-star hotel. While enjoying gourmet pastries and drinks, he realized that the prices were set way too high for people to enjoy on a whim.
From that moment, Mr. Wu has envisioned a cafe that provides premium coffee, bread, and cake at affordable prices. Thus the 85°C Bakery Cafe journey begins… Today, 85°C has over 1,000 locations worldwide. In 2008, the first U.S. store opened in Irvine, CA. The location quickly became an overnight sensation, with over 5,000 Yelp reviews and lines out the door. Featured on TIME, CNN, NPR, and Travel Channel, 85°C Bakery Cafe has become a culinary phenomenon and a new cafe experience for all.
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The first U.S. store opened in Irvine, CA in 2008. Fortunately, the location quickly became an overnight sensation, Featured on TIME, CNN, NPR, and Travel Channel, 85°C Bakery Cafe has become a culinary phenomenon and a new cafe experience for all. with over 5,000 Yelp reviews and lines out the door.
With the successful experience, the company has been investing and growing quite aggressively. Just 2017 along, 5°C Bakery Cafe has opened 17 new locations – All corporate owned. The expansion definitely is exciting and yet challenging. Introducing our unique products into new markets, the self-serve bakery concepts, or unpredictable results when entering uncharted territories such as Texas and Washington States.
There is also a pressure to everyone in the company: the challenges of ensuring all the team members are all ready to get geared up for increased production or services, from accounting/ financial strain, customer service, to employee training as well as the management team,
So, as you know, we’re impressed with 85°C Bakery Café – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
85°C Bakery Cafe is not an ordinary cafe. Each cup of coffee is individually brewed with our own roasted coffee beans for a smooth, rich taste. All of our drinks are handcrafted and made to order. Each store features an in-shop bakery with over 50 varieties of pastries baked fresh hourly. Our gourmet cakes are uniquely crafted by our award-winning master chefs. We strive to bring our customers the best products possible by paying careful attention to every detail which may affect its taste.
Our name comes from the perfect temperature to serve coffee at 85 degrees Celsius (185 Fahrenheit for us Americans!) All the bread is baked fresh in-house ALL DAY. Bread and pastry influence from Taiwan, Japan, USA and Europe. We offer 60 types of fresh bread & 60 types of pastries plus 40+ drink options/variations. The top selling items include Brioche, Marble Taro, Iced Sea Salt Coffee and Mango Crème Brûlée.
Some other fun facts to share:
Every month offers a new product/promotion!
Every Monday we have 85 cent drink promotion, (Delay of 30 days upon initial grand opening.)
Famous for Sea Salt Coffee – Sealed with plastic topping. Tastes best shaken!
Americano coffee (espresso-based), Americano style refers to having additional water
Opens at 6-7am depending on location until 10:00 pm weekdays, Friday and Saturdays 12 am
So, what’s next? Any big plans?
We have 41 store locations as of today and will open 3 more this month (Jan 2018). In addition, we are projecting to open 20 new locations in 2018 and hopefully expand to East Coast by 2019.
Pricing:
- Beverages are very reasonably priced at average $3.50
- Most bread are under $3.00 each
- 8″ cakes that are designed by our master chefs are priced around $30 each
Contact Info:
- Website: www.85cbakerycafe.com
- Phone: 714-459-9585
- Email: customerservice@85cbakerycafe.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/85cbakerycafe/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/85CBakeryCafe
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/85cbakerycafe
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