Caspers Company to sell off its McDonald’s business

Tampa-primarily based Caspers Organization introduced Monday it strategies to market all of its McDonald’s destinations and franchises on Oct. 1, in accordance to media release.

Caspers Company has owned and operated McDonald’s firms all over Tampa due to the fact 1958, and was deemed to be the major franchise in Florida. Fritz Casper opened the state’s to start with McDonald’s on South Dale Mabry Highway immediately after meeting Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s, at a department keep in Chicago, the release reported. Since then, a few generations of the Casper loved ones have run a network of rapid meals-chain franchises in the location.

Blake Casper and Allison Casper Adams could not be attained for remark Monday afternoon. No other details about the sale had been disclosed.

The spouse and children owns 60 McDonald’s outlets, 51 in Tampa Bay and 9 in Jacksonville, said Dustin Portillo, spokesperson for Caspers Enterprise. The local merchants contain the McDonald’s at Tampa Standard Hospital.

“(Blake and Allison) just felt it was the appropriate time to get out of the McDonald’s entire world and offer off their merchants and start out a new chapter,” Portillo explained. “We are respecting our past and reimagining our future.”

Casper and Adams notably started the Oxford Exchange, a location in Tampa which residences a cafe, bookstore, reward retail outlet, coworking place and layout studio in 2012. Extra just lately, they opened the Library, the cafe on the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Clinic campus in St. Petersburg in 2018. Below the hospitality enterprise Oxford Commons, they also very own and work the Recent Resort, a Marriott Autograph resort at Rocky Position, and the Stovall Dwelling.

They system to open Predalina, a Mediterranean seafood cafe at Water Street in 2023, Portillo mentioned. The loved ones is also traders in Riverside Restoration, a drug and liquor addiction heart in Hillsborough County, he mentioned.

Instances personnel author Sue Carlton contributed to this report.