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A former Burger King in Cherry Hill is being transformed into an international cafe and bakery chain with over 1,000 stores worldwide.
The Taiwanese chain is called 85˚C Bakery Café and, according to its website, has branches all over the world, including in California, Hawaii, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah and soon in New Jersey in the USA.
On the 85˚C Bakery Café website, the Cherry Hill location at 1445 Brace Road is listed as “coming soon.”
The company was founded in Taiwan in 2003 by Cheng-Hsueh Wu. He came up with the idea after visiting a cafe in a 5-star hotel and enjoying gourmet pastries and drinks there, noticing that the prices were “too high for people to indulge spontaneously,” the website says.
“From that moment on, Wu envisioned a cafe that would offer premium coffee, bread and cakes at affordable prices,” it says.
What’s in a name?
If the name makes you curious: 85 °C is derived from the idea that “the perfect brewing temperature for espresso is 85 °Celsius.”
The first ever store opened in Taipei in 2004. The first U.S. store opened in Irvine, California in 2008. There are more than 530 locations in China, more than 400 in Taiwan, more than 59 in the U.S., and at least a dozen locations in Australia.
The menu includes cakes, various pastries, bread, sandwiches, coffee, tea, fruit juices, smoothies and more.
The company says each cup of coffee is individually brewed with Guatemalan coffee beans and all drinks are made by hand and to order. Each store has its own bakery with over 50 types of pastries baked fresh every hour, it says.
Former Burger King locations in SJ will be expanded with new stores
In addition to the Cherry Hill location at Brace and Haddonfield-Berlin streets, there are other former Burger King branches in South Jersey that are being given new life.
Several Burger King restaurants in South Jersey closed after the fast-food chain announced plans to close more than 400 restaurants nationwide in May 2023.
What’s next for the Burger King site? What’s coming to the old Burger King location in Mount Holly?
A closed location in Mount Holly at the corner of High Street and Mount Holly Bypass will be occupied by Zen Leaf Dispensaries, and a former Burger King location in the Larchmont Commons shopping center on Route 38 in Mount Laurel will become a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant.
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