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Bright Jenny
About Bright Jenny
A second Kelowna address for Bright Jenny sits at 1987 Kirschner Rd, in the downtown part of the city rather than out on one of the village strips to the south. Coffee operations that grow past a single counter often work from more than one address, and the second is not always a shop front like the first. Roasting, baking, storage and the people who keep everything else supplied all need somewhere to happen, and what any given address is doing is rarely obvious from the pavement.
For a customer that has a few practical consequences. Access varies from one address to another, the pattern of the day is not always what a retail street would lead you to expect, and it is worth a call to 250 860 8848 before driving over, particularly if you are coming from the Mission or out of Rutland. If you want beans in quantity, or wholesale terms for a cafe or an office kitchen, a phone call is generally where that conversation starts.
Kelowna rewards a bit of planning like this. The city runs long and narrow between the lake and the hills, and crossing it in summer, when visitor traffic layers on top of the usual commute, takes noticeably longer than the distance suggests. A five minute phone call is cheaper than a twenty minute drive in the wrong direction. Anyone who would rather check first will find current information at brightjenny.ca before setting out.
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In the Downtown neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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