{"id":13078,"date":"2015-09-21T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=13078"},"modified":"2015-09-21T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:07:20","slug":"bennetts-to-celebrate-national-coffee-day-sept-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2015\/09\/21\/bennetts-to-celebrate-national-coffee-day-sept-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett\u2019s to celebrate National Coffee Day Sept. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jenavieve<\/a><\/h1>\n

Jenavieve Verley with the new Creamy Spug<\/p>\n

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Sept. 21, 2015) \u2013 Bennett\u2019s Fresh Roast<\/a> will celebrate National Coffee Day Tuesday, Sept. 29 by offering free coffee and unveiling a new coffee creation inspired by one of its star employees.<\/p>\n

Beginning at 6 a.m., the downtown Fort Myers and Sanibel locations will offer one free 12-ounce brewed coffee per person until 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

In addition, Bennett\u2019s newest coffee drink will be available beginning Sept. 29. Inspired by downtown Fort Myers\u2019 employee and Fort Myers High School student Jenavieve Verley, the Creamy Spug is a concoction of delicate cinnamon flavors including two shots of Bennett\u2019s smooth fresh roasted espresso blend poured into steamed and frothed half and half (breve, poured macchiato style), then topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with cinnamon.<\/p>\n

According to Bennett\u2019s owner Bob Grissinger, former local morning disc jockey C. David Bennett, the idea for the Creamy Spug resulted from a dream Jenavieve had one night.<\/p>\n

In the dream, a customer came in and ordered four of the then fictional Creamy Spugs and left quite upset when Jenavieve didn\u2019t know how to make them. After she told her prank-loving boss about the dream the next day, he texted a number of customers and asked them to come in and request the still fictional Creamy Spug to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was such a good sport that I had to put my creative cap on and actually come up with a real Creamy Spug for us to add to our menu,\u201d Grissinger said. \u201cAnd, there\u2019s no better day than National Coffee Day to make Jenavieve\u2019s dream become a reality as we begin serving the Creamy Spug.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are many\u00a0legendary\u00a0accounts of how coffee first came to be, but the earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or the knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th<\/sup>\u00a0century in the\u00a0<\/em>Sufi\u00a0monasteries around Mokha in Yemen. It was there where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed, in a similar way it is prepared today. Yemeni traders brought coffee back to their homeland, from Ethiopia, and began to cultivate the seed. In 1670, coffee seeds were smuggled out of the Middle East by\u00a0Baba Budan, as he strapped seven coffee seeds onto his chest. The first plants grown from these smuggled seeds were planted in Mysore. It was then that coffee spread to Italy, the rest of Europe, Indonesia and the Americas.<\/p>\n

Bennett\u2019s Fresh Roast has prided itself on its fresh-from-scratch donuts made daily and being the only Fort Myers donut shop to serve fresh roasted coffee from the finest beans resulting in the most flavorful and freshest cup of coffee around. For the past seven years, the Bennett\u2019s team has been known for unveiling delicious new donut concoctions from flavors including maple bacon, pumpkin spice, maple toffee crunch, s\u2019mores and more. The shop has also become known for surprising offerings like its limited sale (which sold out) of Kopi Luwak coffee, often called \u201ccat-poo coffee\u201d after the prized bean from Indonesia that\u2019s eaten by wild civets, passed through the animal\u2019s digestive tract, and then collected and processed for brewing.<\/p>\n

In addition to fresh roasted coffee and hand-cut-from-scratch donuts, Bennett\u2019s also offers fresh desserts from Grissinger\u2019s own recipe book including praline bread pudding and lemon bars, giving area residents an alternative for afternoon treats. Bennett\u2019s also features packaged whole bean or ground coffees, breakfast muffins, oatmeal and breakfast sandwiches. On the weekends, Bennett\u2019s Strata (a layered baked breakfast dish) is a regular sellout at its downtown location, while the Strata is available every day on Sanibel. The Sanibel shop also offers a pancake dish for breakfast. Tea lovers may choose from a large variety of Harney & Sons Fine Teas. Lunch offerings including paninis, soups, sandwiches, three signature salads and Bennett\u2019s \u2018Chicken & Donut\u2019 and \u2018Donut Dog.\u2019 Bennett\u2019s Sanibel location also offers Artisan Gelato by Norman Love beginning at 11 a.m. daily until closing.<\/p>\n

Bennett\u2019s downtown Fort Myers shop is located at 2011 Bayside Parkway and is open Monday through Sunday from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bennett\u2019s Sanibel shop is located at 1020 Periwinkle Way and is open Monday through Sunday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0www.BennettsFreshRoast.com<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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