Cafe 7 coming to downtown Oklahoma City
By Brianna Bailey
Journal Record
Oklahoma City reporter - Contact 405-278-2847
Posted: 06:42 PM Tuesday, March 13, 2012

OKLAHOMA CITY – After opening its doors about three years ago near W. Memorial Road and N. May Avenue, Cafe 7 is opening a second location in downtown’s First National Center.

The fast-casual restaurant has signed a lease for 3,800 square feet of space on the ground floor of First National Center at the corner of N. Robinson and Park avenues. The space was previously occupied by Woods Floral and Copelin’s Office Center.

“We’ve been wanting to branch out to a second store for a while and downtown Oklahoma City seemed like that magic spot,”
Cafe 7 co-owner Jimmy Mays said. “There’s a lot going on there right now and we want to be a part of it.”

Mays opened Cafe 7 in November 2008 with fellow Oklahoma State University alumnus Chris Kana and their former college instructor Paul Sorrentino from OSU’s School of Hotel and Restaurant Management.

The eatery offers sandwiches, soups, pizzas, salads and pasta and makes its sauces each day from scratch.

The First National Center Cafe 7 will be open for lunch Monday through Friday and will also offer catering services. Mays and his partners hope to have the restaurant open by this summer.

Laci Jackson of Price Edwards & Co. negotiated the lease for First National Center.

“Cafe 7 has been really successful in Oklahoma City and we were seeking a good user for that space,” Jackson said. “We think a street-access restaurant will do really well there.”

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