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About the Orlando Cat Café Franchise
We’ve developed a new way to think about cat café franchise business models. With close shelter partnerships and a focus on cat and guest comfort, we’re not kitten around here.
A New Breed
At Orlando Cat Café, every person shares a dedication to the furry charges under our care. We love cats and want to do what we can to help them experience safe and happy lives with the right owner. And we built our brand to do just that. It’s been our mission since the beginning to become one of the fastest-growing cat café franchises in the U.S.
A Purr-Fect Recipe
What’s the secret behind our growth? Much of our continuing development and expansion is thanks to an unmatched business model – a cat-tastic blend of a high-quality cafe and a welcome place for kittens, cats and future feline families, that helps ensure we operate differently than most cat café businesses. Instead of pursuing pure profit over favorable conditions and outcomes, we took a collaborative, philanthropic approach. And it works!
A Breed Apart
When people talk about cat café franchise design, they likely picture a traditional business structure in which the business adopts cats from a shelter and resells them to customers. We went a different route and brought the shelter to the cafe. Orlando Cat Cafe partners with local rescues to facilitate direct adoption through the shelter. We help our franchise owners foster the same collaborative relationships with their local shelters.
A Purr-Fect Pairing
We take the same approach with the café side of the business. We team with Minch Coffee Company that operates almost independently of us and manages food and beverage purchases, food prep, cashier services, and other onsite sales and management tasks. It’s a partnership that helps us maintain strict standards for cleanliness and safety at the café while connecting our customers to some of the best local meals, coffee, and cat-puccinos around.
A Paws-itive Outlook
Our business model has aided our growth. More importantly, it’s helped us save and transform lives, with over 2,500 cats adopted and more than 170,000 guests served. We’re proud of our impact on our kitty communities. And we’re excited to share our groundbreaking approach with cat lovers nationwide.
A New Breed
At Orlando Cat Café, every person shares a dedication to the furry charges under our care. We love cats and want to do what we can to help them experience safe and happy lives with the right owner. And we built our brand to do just that. It’s been our mission since the beginning to become one of the fastest-growing cat café franchises in the U.S.
A Purr-Fect Recipe
What’s the secret behind our growth? Much of our continuing development and expansion is thanks to an unmatched business model – a cat-tastic blend of a high-quality cafe and a welcome place for kittens, cats and future feline families, that helps ensure we operate differently than most cat café businesses. Instead of pursuing pure profit over favorable conditions and outcomes, we took a collaborative, philanthropic approach. And it works!
A Breed Apart
When people talk about cat café franchise design, they likely picture a traditional business structure in which the business adopts cats from a shelter and resells them to customers. We went a different route and brought the shelter to the café. Orlando Cat Café partners with the SPCA and works with their volunteer staff to facilitate direct adoption through the shelter. We help our franchise owners foster the same collaborative relationships with their local shelters.
A Purr-Fect Pairing
We take the same approach with the café side of the business. We team with a coffee shop that operates almost independently of us and manages food and beverage purchases, food prep, cashier services, and other onsite sales and management tasks. It’s a partnership that helps us maintain strict standards for cleanliness and safety at the café while connecting our customers to some of the best local meals, coffee, and cat-puccinos around.
A Paws-itive Outlook
Our business model has aided our growth. More importantly, it’s helped us save and transform lives, with over 2,500 cats adopted and more than 150,000 guests served. We’re proud of our impact on our kitty communities. And we’re excited to share our groundbreaking approach with cat lovers nationwide.
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As a cat lover and shelter supporter, Orlando Cat Café founder and owner Sandra Cagan had a lifelong dream to build a brand that could give back to her community and help shelter cats connect with a furever friend. Her extensive business experience, careful planning, and vision for a new business model helped her realize that dream.
Sandra spent the first few decades of her career working in property development and real estate management. She had a knack for commerce and wanted to put it to use building a business as dedicated to philanthropic service as it was to sound finances and solid growth. Sandra kept her eyes and ears open for opportunities. And in 2014, opportunity knocked.
Sandra saw an NBC Nightly News report on cat cafés in December of that year, and it was life-changing. She realized that her experience had helped her develop a toolkit with skills well-suited to creating a new approach to the cat café, one that kept the cat’s best interests in mind at all times and could be easily replicated in other communities.
The first Orlando Cat Café opened for business in 2016 in Clermont, Florida. It was the first cat café launched in the state, and the brand was an immediate hit with guests, cats, and local shelters. Sandra’s groundbreaking business model upended conventional wisdom about cat café franchise growth and helped the brand get highlighted in the news, tourist guides, and other media.
Today, Sandra is leading Orlando Cat Café’s expansion into new markets across the southeast and beyond, and welcomes equally passionate and skilled professionals to help her expand the brand.
Tales of Success
What our customers say.
“The visit to the Orlando Cat Café was the highlight for my recent visit to Florida.”
Diane C.
“We’ve been to the Orlando Cat Café 3 times. Everyone is very welcoming and the café is clean, and the food and drinks are delicious and affordable.”
Jennifer E.
“Everything was wonderful. Can’t wait to come back.”