private industry restaurants founded 1993 in stratford ontario canada founder bill and george giannakopoulos headquarters brantford ontario canada canada key people dean braund ceo products coffee and fast food including sandwiches soups salads desserts and hot entr es website williamsfreshcafe.com williams fresh cafe is an upper class fast food restaurant chain in ontario canada . there are currently 37 locations all of which are within ontario . previous logo as williams coffee pub the chain was founded as williams coffee pub in stratford ontario in 1993 by bill giannakopoulos and george giannakopoulos . the restaurant was named for william shakespeare as stratford is home of the annual stratford shakespeare festival . 1 dean braund purchased a majority interest in the chain in 2006 2 and currently owns 80 % with the other 20 % held by kitchener based laurentian capital . 1 the current name and store format was phased in during 2009 and 2010 . the head office for the chain is located at 202 grand river avenue in brantford ontario . the restaurant features a mixture of over the counter and table service . restaurant patrons place orders at the counter pay immediately and receive a numbered sign which identifies them at their table to the server . references edit a b currie pat . not your usual coffee shop . the beacon herald . retrieved 2010 12 07 . williams fresh cafe . the williams story . retrieved 2010 12 07 . external links edit official website this canada based restaurant or restaurant chain article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title williams fresh cafe & oldid 742421736 categories fast food chains of canadacoffee houses of canadaretail companies established in 1993companies based in ontariobrantfordnorth american restaurant stubscanadian company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 16 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view