With hospitality experience and entrepreneurial designs, owners Keith and Catherine Jones created a new dining concept and intend to open it in mid-April in North Jacksonville.
They expect Kappucinos Breakfast & Sports Bar will be “the ultimate in fast-casual dining experience” in the neighborhood and beyond.
Breakfast and lunch will be served in the mornings through lunch. At night, Kappucinos will switch to a sports bar.
“I just want to be a positive addition to the local community,” Keith Jones said.
Kappucinos is leasing about 6,000 square feet of space, including a 600-square-foot outdoor patio, in Units 401-404 in Dunns Creek Crossing shopping center at 11257 Alta Drive, a newly constructed project at northeast Alta Drive and Faye Road, east and north of Interstate 295.
Alta Drive becomes Yellow Buff Road north of the center. Jacksonville-based Ash Properties is the landlord.
The city issued three sign permits Dec. 31, 2025, for Kappucinos Breakfast Sports Bar. The city continues to review a tenant build-out permit at an estimated project cost of $155,084.
“My intent is to be the ‘Cheers’ and a nice neighborhood hub,” Jones said, referring to the Boston bar depicted in the TV comedy from 1982-93 with the theme song, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name.”
He said they hope the neighborhood patrons as well as workers, truckers and port employees from the nearby industrial parks and JaxPort terminals will drop by for breakfast.
“Hopefully everyone on their way to work can stop by and enjoy specialty coffees and a full breakfast,” Jones said.
Jones intends to open at 6 a.m. to serve coffees and specialty drinks along with a standard Southern-inspired breakfast, followed by lunch until 1 p.m.
Kappucinos would reopen at 5 p.m. through 10:30 p.m. or 11 p.m. as a sports bar and add live music later in the week.
Keith Jones said it will include multiple large-screen TVs and a full bar.
He expects Kappucinos will fit in well with the other restaurants in the vicinity and be a welcome addition to the community.
Jones said the menu will be casual and affordable.
He said his experience covers breakfast and lunch, having worked at Waffle House and Cracker Barrel.
The Joneses expect to provide entertainment to include live music, comedy shows, date nights, trivia nights, poker night, bingo and karaoke.
The Joneses said service is at the core of the Jones family, and the breakfast and sports bar will be an extension by frequently hosting community events such as health seminars and charity events.
Keith Jones said the April grand opening will support military veterans.
Jones said he and Catherine, his wife, have invested an estimated $1 million into Kappucinos so far.
His experience includes work as a unit manager at a few national breakfast restaurant companies.
“Knowing the entire side of running a restaurant is nothing new to me, I am very comfortable with that, putting out good food.”
Not fine dining, he said, “just normal Southern food that looks good, tastes good and is affordable.”
After exploring options, he settled on the Dunns Creek area and intends his family to move to the neighborhood.
Zoning exception
Jones seeks a zoning exception from the city to serve alcohol. In his explanation to the city, he wrote that Kappuccinos Breakfast & Sports Bar “will be a welcomed addition to the Alta Drive/Yellow Bluff community in the sense that we will meet this growing community’s needs/demands for full service dining all under one roof.”
He wrote that it would start the day with fresh coffee and also specialize “in rich espresso drinks from cappuccinos to iced caramel lattes.”
Kappuccinos will provide a full breakfast and lunch menu that will include Southern breakfast classics like shrimp and grits fresh “from our neighboring Mayport docks” to lunch classics like cheesesteak melt meals.
In the early evening, as a neighborhood sports bar, Kappuccinos Breakfast & Sports Bar will offer full course meals “while cheering on the home Jacksonville Jaguars and other local teams on multiple jumbo TV monitors.”
“Locals will be just steps away from home and will not have to endure the stress of busy traffic and congestion to drive further away to the River City Marketplace nor the St. Johns Town Center,” he wrote
Kappuccinos Breakfast & Sports Bar will be a compliment to the community, he wrote, and being within the Dunns Creek Crossing center, there will be no detrimental effect on vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
That location provides “sufficient entry onto the property by fire, police, rescue, and other services and not overburdening existing public service and facilities.”