{"id":1920,"date":"2022-07-26T21:34:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2022-07-26T21:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:34:55","slug":"boba-tea-chain-teaspoon-planning-more-sites-like-el-dorado-hills-town-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/07\/26\/boba-tea-chain-teaspoon-planning-more-sites-like-el-dorado-hills-town-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Boba Tea Chain &#8220;Teaspoon&#8221; Planning More Sites Like El Dorado Hills Town Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By Jake Abbott, Sacramento Business Journal<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) July 26, 2022 \u2014 [&#8230;] Teaspoon is a cafe franchise that features an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teaspoonlife.com\/menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assortment<\/a>\u00a0of cold teas, coffee and macarons. The business opened its first location in Los Altos in 2015 and has since expanded to 20 stores across the state, including locations in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sacramento\/news\/2021\/08\/27\/lincoln-speakeasy-holds-soft-opening.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roseville<\/a>\u00a0and Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx paywall__content\">Franchisees\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sacramento\/search\/results?q=Ahmed%20Farag\">Ahmed Farag<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sacramento\/search\/results?q=Hady%20Abou%20El%20Kheir\">Hady Abou El Kheir<\/a>\u00a0signed a development agreement with Teaspoon earlier this year. The deal calls for a minimum of three locations throughout Northern California, though Farag said the business partners are targeting about 10 locations, the majority of which could be within the greater Sacramento area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx paywall__content\">The franchisees are both early retirees from the Bay Area tech industry, with Farag having spent more than a decade with Microsoft Corp. and Abou El Kheir with Facebook. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx paywall__content\">Teaspoon&#8217;s website lists 45 locations as coming soon, including a site in the El Dorado Hills Town Center at 4420 Town Center Blvd., Suite 110. The site is not listed in leasing materials for the shopping center. Farag said he and his business partner are not involved in that location and wasn&#8217;t sure of its status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx paywall__content\">Neither representatives of Teaspoon nor the El Dorado Hills Town Center responded to requests for comment about the potential El Dorado Hills location on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sacramento\/news\/2022\/07\/26\/teaspoon-additional-sites-sacramento-area.html?utm_source=InEDC&amp;utm_medium=News&amp;utm_campaign=Placerville&amp;utm_content=Eyeballs-via-Placerville-Newswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaspoon&#8217;s website lists 45 locations as coming soon, including a site in the El Dorado Hills Town Center at 4420 Town Center Blvd., Suite 110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}