'Great Fit': Gregorys Coffee Opening First IL Location In Schaumburg
SCHAUMBURG, IL — Gregorys Coffee, a New York-based company, is ready for the Chicago market. The coffee shop will open its first Illinois location next week at Woodfield Mall.
“We know the Chicago area is an unreal food city. With our track record of speciality coffee and delicious pastries, we felt it would be a great fit to our brand,” Rene Puerta, director of marketing for Gregorys Coffee, tells Patch. “Many of our team members have been to the area for various industry events and love it.”
An opening date for the Woodfield Mall shop is Tuesday.
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Gregorys Coffee was founded by Gregory Zamfortis, opening in 2006 in Manhattan. The company’s mission is “to challenge the status quo by seeing coffee differently, and does so by operating its nationally recognized coffee shops and selling its locally roasted coffee online and in shops.”
According to Puerta, the Schaumburg location is its 14th, with a commitment to open 19 in total across the country as part of an agreement earlier this year with Simon Property Group. Simon, owners of Woodfield Mall, is the largest owners of shopping malls in the United States. In addition to New York and Illinois, there are Gregory Coffee locations in Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Washington D.C.
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Zamfotis, who also serves as the company’s CEO, created Gregorys Coffee “to disrupt the industry and allow consumers to see coffee differently by delivering premium coffee without compromising service or price.” Coffee is brewed every 30 minutes, fresh pastries are baked in-house daily, and Gregorys Coffee serves dairy-free milk alternatives at no additional cost.
“We only use coffee that scores 85 or higher on the universal coffee grading scale,” Puerta said. “We roast ourselves in our New York City facility, applying stringent quality.”
The appeal of Woodfield Mall included its access to a curated mix of local and national shops, department stores and restaurants, according to Puerta. The new shop will afford Gregorys Coffee a closer look at the Chicagoland market overall.
“We’d love to [possibly expand], though have no commitments in the pipeline.” Puerta said. “As we learn more about the market through this entry, we’ll have a better understanding if it’ll be a good long term fit for us as a brand, and if it warrants further expansion.”
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