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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Coffee shop |
| Founded | 2002 in Amityville, New York, United States |
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| Headquarters | Long Island, New York |
Number of locations | 5 |
| Products |
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| Website | www |
Brownstones Coffee is a New York–based restaurant chain. An early adopter of the breakfast-oriented coffee shop model, the company has five locations on Long Island.
History
editBrownstones Coffee was founded in 2002 by Manny Kourounis and his son Christopher in Amityville, New York.[1] The store was operational well before the breakfast-oriented coffee shop model became popular.[2] The original location was plagued by a series of false starts, followed by a catastrophic fire in August 2015[3] which spurred the Kourounises to found other stores in nearby West Islip and East Northport with the help of business partner John Mangino.[4] The Amityville location was reopened in 2017.[2]
Description
editKourounis named his restaurants for the ubiquitous brownstone architectural-style buildings of the Brooklyn neighborhood he grew up in.[4][5] The company's logo, which was trademarked in 2015, consists of a stylized BROWNSTONES in tan color over a stylized COFFEE in white over a black background, with an illustration of the uppermost floor and windows of a brownstone-type building running along the top in tan, white, black and burgundy.[6] Kourounis designed a "time machine" for each of his stores to complement the 1920s–inspired decor.[5] The intent was to provide patrons with an old-time, casual feel as they dined. In addition to offering a specially roasted house blend of coffee—along with other beverages—the restaurant serves its customers breakfast and lunch.[2] Bethpage Federal Credit Union voted the restaurant's French toast the best on New York's Long Island for the years 2021 and 2023.[5]
Locations
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As of August 2023[update], Brownstones Coffee had five locations,[7] all of which were on Long Island; the original store in Amityville; one each in West Islip[1] and East Northport[8] (these stores originally each replaced a shuttered Friendly's restaurant[2] with the West Islip store later relocating to a new shopping plaza there[8]); one in Centereach[1] and one in Sayville.[7] The chain retains a franchise director, Christina Walberg, who guides the restaurant's future growth.[2] A dedicated coffee roasting plant was under plan for Amityville in 2021—to be named Brownstones Coffee Roasting Company—which would supply product to other coffee establishments.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Parrish, Tory N. (January 24, 2019) "Brownstones Coffee, AT&T Store to Join Shopping Center" ProQuest 2246195669 Newsday. Retrieved August 7, 2024. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d e Hirsch, Corin (July 14, 2018) "Brownstone's Coffee Opens in Former Friendly's in East Northport" ProQuest 2071253876 Newsday. Retrieved August 7, 2024. (subscription required) "... Brownstone's Coffee, a breakfast-and-lunch joint ... first opened in Amityville in 2002, long before the current breakfast boom took hold."
- ^ Winzelberg, David (December 21, 2015) "Brownstones Coffee Replacing Friendly's in East Northport", Long Island Business News. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^ a b Beach, Connor (May 31, 2018) "Coffee and So Much More at Brownstones", Long Islander News. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^ a b c Mullarkey, Maureen (April 19, 2023) "Brownstones Coffee to Open Sayville Location on Friday", Patch. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
- ^ (May 13, 2015) "USPTO Issues Trademark: Brownstones Coffee" ProQuest 1680505147 Federal News Service. Washington, D.C. Retrieved August 7, 2024. (subscription required) "The mark consists of a design of the top story of a brownstone style building with the exterior elements in tan, black and burgundy; there are seven windows trimmed in black and all having window shades in tan, outlined in black and drawn halfway down with the remainder of the windows in white; underneath the building is a rectangular marquee in black with a tan and black border featuring the stylized word "BROWNSTONES" in tan, above the stylized word "COFFEE" in white, above a scroll like design in tan."
- ^ a b Berlin, Andi (August 31, 2023) "In Long Beach, Another Toast to All-day Breakfast" ProQuest 2858852304 Newsday. Retrieved August 7, 2024. (subscription required) "Long Island-based Brownstone's Coffee opened its fifth location in Sayville this April, serving Nutella Oreo waffles and a boozy cereal flight with Baileys and Cinnamon Toast Crunch."
- ^ a b Winzelberg, David (November 5, 2020) "Brownstones Coffee to Open in New West Islip Retail Center, Long Island Business News. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
- ^ Parrish, Tory N. (July 2, 2021) "Wings and Lattes: Chicken Spots, Coffee Chains See Boom on Long Island" ProQuest 2547247531 Newsday. Retrieved August 7, 2024. (subscription required) "Seeking to put more focus on coffee, Brownstones has signed a lease to open Brownstones Coffee Roasting Co. at 55 Merrick Rd. in Amityville, beside its existing restaurant in the Amity Mall shopping center, in the next four months, Walberg said. The new store will have an in-house roaster doing small-batch roasting of coffee beans to sell to other restaurants, and it will sell brewed coffee and roasted beans to retail customers, she said."
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