Bielat Santore & Company Closes Deal For Toast City Diner
MANALAPAN: Bielat Santore & Company’s “Diner” Bob Gillis dishes up Toast for Brunch! Project Brunch of Manalapan, a successful, trendy Breakfast & Brunch Restaurant has changed hands after a five-year run. Toast City Diner has purchased the business with a targeted reopening date in November 2024.
Project Brunch, which is located in the highly visible Town Pointe Shopping Center on Route 9 South in Manalapan, opened in 2019, survived the Covid shutdown and became a popular Breakfast & Brunch spot. When owner, Rob Portera decided to concentrate all his efforts on his already successful tech business, he called on Bielat Santore & Company and sales agent Robert Gillis to market the restaurant. “Diner” Bob Gillis, who has developed relationships with diner and Breakfast-Lunch Café owners throughout the state, immediately targeted Toast City Diner as the perfect buyer.
For Toast, the Manalapan location will be their fifth and newest New Jersey location to be opened in their seventeen-year history. The company already has locations in Asbury Park, Red Bank, Montclair, and Cranford. After renovations and rebranding of the 4,200 square foot restaurant with seating for 100+, Toast will bring it’s classic Eggs Benedicts and signature pancakes, as well as healthy and innovative lunch selections to the upscale Manalapan-Marlboro-Englishtown area.
“Diner” Bob Gillis and Bielat Santore & Company are honored to be part of the Toast City Diner expansion and hope to be instrumental in finding future locations to help spread the company mantra of “PEACE, LOVE & PANCAKES”!!!