First Watch plates another store in south Florida

UNIVERSITY PARK — First Watch, the fast-growing breakfast, brunch and lunch chain, plans to open its first Deerfield Beach location next year.

The store, scheduled to open in early 2014, according to a release, will be the chain's seventh in southeast Florida. The 3,000-square-foot restaurant will be in the Deerfield Mall, in a former H&R Block tax center, and will have 25 employees, University Park-based First Watch says. A Publix anchors the shopping center.

First Watch has made other changes to its southeast Florida market recently. It opened one location in Boca Raton a few months ago, and announced it will move a second store in the area to another spot, the release states.