Popular cafe opens new location

SANIBEL — Bennett's Fresh Roast, a popular Fort Myers coffee and doughnut shop, is opening a second location on the barrier island of Sanibel on Tuesday.

“With the price of the property, renovations and new equipment and fixtures, this is a $3 million investment that we are very proud of,” said Bennett's owner Bob Grissinger, former local morning disc jockey C. David Bennett.

 “We opened in downtown Fort Myers in February 2008 at the beginning of the country's worst economic downturn in 70 years,” said Bennett's co-owner Frank Albano, who will oversee a staff of 12 people at the new location. “It's so gratifying to know that we've come so far in such a short period of time.”