Carolina Bagel to reopen Monday after renovations

Carolina Bagel Company & Deli, a popular New Bern breakfast and lunch restaurant, plans to reopen Monday. Stephan Dentico works from his ladder adjusting AC vents, while Lee Hiner and Brandon Shorer of Bruin Builders, LLC, discuss numbers during an afternoon of construction.

Carolina Bagel Company & Deli, a popular New Bern breakfast and lunch restaurant at 3601 Trent Road, is nearing completion of a major renovation and plans to reopen Monday.

Jeff Wood, part-owner with Charlie Lofurno of Carolina Bagel at Village Square Shopping Center atthe intersections ofTrentand Glenburnie roads, said a grand opening is scheduled for Aug. 7.

Wood said to his knowledge this is the first total renovation Carolina Bagel has received since it opened in 1995. He and Lofurno bought the restaurant in 2008 from the previous owners.

Weve painted and done some minor things (over the past six years), he said. But a complete restoration has never been done. We are real excited about it.

Everything in the restaurant is being renovated except the seating capacity, food and family atmosphere, Wood said.

Unfortunately we cant expand the seating, Wood said. The restaurant has a seating capacity of 62.

But customers loyal and new will find a new ceiling, floor, freshly painted walls, new furniture and bathrooms, Wood said.

Its just a new look, he said. I think for the long-term and new customers the most dramatic change will be the floor. We are going from a tile floor to a hard-wood floor. As we see the progress taking place, which is long overdue, we are both excited about it.

Wood said his contractor, Lee Hiner with Bruin Builders of New Bern, has already done a phenomenal job with the renovations.

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