Restaurant entrepreneurs Andy Yang and Stefani Go are bringing a new French-Korean cuisine option to Northeast Florida.
The spouses hope to open their Tous les Jours bakery franchise at 9810-6 Baymeadows Road in the Baymeadows Village retail center before Mother’s Day.
The 4,360-square-foot cafe will replace the former Panera Bread that relocated to a stand-alone building at 9485 Baymeadows Road.
June Ye of Clearwater is listed on a permit as the contractor, and the architect named is Zhi Feng of Duluth, Georgia.
Tous les Jours (pronouced too-lay-zhoor) is a South Korea-based company that franchises neighborhood bakeries specializing in French-Asian baked goods, coffees and beverages. The name means “every day” in French.
The company is owned by CJ Foodville, a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, and has U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles.
Yang and Go have been longtime fans of Tous les Jours from visiting in larger cities. They began inquiring about the franchise in 2024 and applied for a location on the company’s website.
Yang and Go have experience in restaurants. In 2025, they opened Bibimbox Korean Kitchen & Wings and Kumo Kumo Dessert Cafe in a shared space at 4463 Deerwood Lake Parkway across from Tinseltown, the commercial area along Southside Boulevard north of Butler Boulevard.
In summer 2024, Go and Yang had a telephone conversation with company representatives from Tous les Jours, Go said.
“The call was about getting to know us and our interests, and if we were a good fit to be franchisees. It was mostly getting to know us and if we (could be) part of the corporate team,” she said.
Two weeks later, the couple received a text message informing them they had been awarded the franchise.
The initial franchise fee for a Tous les Jours is $40,000 for the first 10 years, with a royalty fee of 5% of gross sales and an advertising fee of 2%, according to the International Franchise Professionals Group website. Initial investment ranges from $718,230 to $938,894, the group reported.
Yang and Go own and operate the Baymeadows store with financing mostly from family investors, Go said.
A second Tous les Jours location opened Sept. 12, 2025, in the Lotte Plaza Market, an Asian and international grocery store with a food court at 9355 Atlantic Blvd. in the Arlington area. That location is owned by a different group.
When the Baymeadows cafe opens, it plans to offer breads, cakes, pies and pastries, including purple sweet potato loaves, taro cream bread, honey cheese mochi pancakes and cloud cakes.
The shop will sell individual slices of cake, as well as children’s party cakes, and will serve breakfast and lunch sandwiches. Beverage offerings will include hot and iced coffees, teas and blends. Tous les Jours locations serve proprietary coffee.
Yang, 28, and Go, 27, are from Jacksonville and met each other as teens.
Yang and his brother, Stanley, opened the first Bibimbox and Kumo Kumo in May 2025 in Columbia, South Carolina.
The Tous les Jours build-out is expected to cost about $1 million, Go said. Tous les Jours is particular about the equipment used in its stores, she said, and the shop will have all new Korean kitchen equipment.
The owners expect to hire six bakers and four “cakers,” the Tous les Jours vernacular for those who bake and decorate only cakes.
Spouses and family friends, Ollie and Luna Zheng, will oversee the kitchen.
“We’re going to have our team of bakers starting at around 4 a.m., and they will do the whole production for the day until the early afternoon,” Go said. “Then they start preparing for the next day in the afternoon.”
Tous les Jours tentatively plans to open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, possibly closing later on weekends.
“People will be getting breads and coffee in the morning, and then after dinner, we expect a lot of people getting cake,” Go said.
Worldwide, Tous les Jours has more than 1,740 locations, with at least 110 in the United States, including four in Tampa and Orlando, according to the company website.
The company started in 1997 in South Korea and opened its first U.S. store in 2004 in Los Angeles.
Products are baked on-site, and the baked goods are wrapped and displayed in long, glass-enclosed cases. Customers form a line and serve themselves, with the register at the end of the display cases.
The Baymeadows Tous les Jours is expected to seat 76 people, Go said. The average Tous les Jours location has 20 seats, according to a RestaurantBusinessOnline.com report.