The Buzz: Festival Foods brings Caribou Coffee to Appleton in store remodel – Post-Crescent

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Construction workers are extending a portion of the front of Festival Foods at 1200 W. Northland Ave. in Appleton to accommodate a new fresh food area.(Photo: Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)

Festival Foods will bring the first Caribou Coffee location to Northeast Wisconsin this fall.

The Minneapolis-based Caribou Coffeewill be part ofthe renovation ofFestival Foods'store at 1200W. NorthlandAve. in Appleton.

Festival is extending a portion of the store'sfront wall to accommodate a 2,000-square-foot, food court-style areaof fresh food counters.

BesidesCaribou Coffee, it will include an expandedHissho Sushi counter plusAsian stir-fry and pizza by the slice. Festival's gourmet popcorn stand will return. The area will have seating.

Caribou Coffee is the Minneapolis-based coffee shop chain with 464 US. locations and 2019 sales of $306 million, as estimatedby the foodservice research firm Technomic.

Festival Foods' Northland Avenue store in Appleton will have seating and ready-to-eat food counters, as shown in this rendering.(Photo: Submitted)

This will be Caribous second location inside Festival Foods, said Festivalspokeswoman Sheryl Hanson.

The first is in the chain'sClairemont Avenue store in Eau Claire.

The Tot Spot child drop-off room will not return in the store's renovation plan.

Caribou Coffee will be in Appleton in the fall.(Photo: Submitted)

With the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were uncertain on when we would be able to safely reopen the Tot Spot, said Aaron Aspenson, senior director of store planning. Because of this, we re-evaluated the layout of the store and identified an opportunity to adapt.

This is the only Fox Cities Festival Foods branch getting the food court-style addition at this time, Aspensonsaid, but theyre looking at other locations for a future rollout.

Contact reporter Maureen Wallenfang at 920-993-7116 or mwallenfang@postcrescent.com. Followher on Twitter at@wallenfang.

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