Starbucks officials had declined to provide an opening date for the region’s newest coffee shop earlier this month, and they did not respond late Tuesday to requests for comment. But Cara Tilford, planning and zoning director for Sugarcreek Twp., confirmed that the Starbucks opened Friday. The Orange Leaf yogurt shop opened at 7:30 p.m. Monday, according to franchisee B.J. Patel, who also co-owns six other Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt locations in the Cincinnati area, including shops in Oxford and West Chester.
Patel said his shop employs about a dozen people. Starbucks officials previously said the new Sugarcreek Twp. location would employ about 20.
Construction is already underway on another new drive-through Starbucks, this one an $825,000 free-standing facility in a prominent location on the front porch of the Mall at Fairfield Commons in Beavercreek.
A grand opening for Orange Leaf is planned for Oct. 3, when free frozen yogurt will be given away from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., according to Patel, who said he’s looking to open another yogurt shop in the Dayton area in 2014. Oklahoma City-based Orange Leaf opened its first Dayton-area location in the Town & Country shopping center in Kettering last year, under a different franchise owner.
Sugarcreek Twp. Administrator Barry Tiffany has said the former CiCi’s Pizza space had been vacant for nearly four years, and the presence of Starbucks and Orange Leaf “will help all of the businesses along Wilmington Pike.”
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