Honey Baked Ham Company Celebrates with Official Ribbon Cutting

Palm Coast, FL – Adding to the delectable fast casual options in Palm Coast, Honey Baked Ham celebrated their expansion into Flagler County with an official ribbon cutting and community welcome on Friday, just in time for the lunch hour.

Offering up $5 sandwiches, owner Barry Peckham said opening the second store alongside wife April, was a positive experience for the franchisees. The couple own a Honey Baked Ham in St. Augustine and said they often had Flagler County residents as customers.

“Palm Coast is growing, and we have a lot of customers who come to St. Augustine and they were asking when we were going to open up in Palm Coast and I thought, let’s do it,” shared Peckham.

Starting with the company a decade ago as a manager, Peckham made the move into ownership in 2013, and said the company’s core values were ones he identified with, as they made an investment into their own family’s future.

“I started as a manger and built my first store. I opened my second store seven years later,” said Peckham. “Honey Baked Ham is a family-owned company that has really good qualities and core values and the food is fresh. It’s just a good, wholesome company to be part of.”

On hand to emcee the ceremonial ribbon cutting was Flagler County Commissioner Greg Hansen, who was joined by several members of the Palm Coast City Council. Newly elected councilman Ed Danko, was pleased to hear of the smooth experience the Peckham’s had when opening their business in November 2020, while still in the midst of the pandemic.

“Thank God we’ve got another business coming into Palm Coast because we’ve had businesses close, businesses lose revenue, and thank God these folks took a chance on us,” said Danko enthusiastically. “We need to come out and need to support them.”

Focusing on a business-friendly platform, Danko pledged to continue helping make the process easier for new businesses in Palm Coast, while supporting existing businesses.

“We have got to support local businesses,” he said. “It’s going to be ongoing for me. We need to be a business friendly community, to reach out to businesses, get over the hurdles and the obstacles that we have put in front of businesses in the past.”

Celebrations continue on Saturday, January 30th at the Honey Baked Ham Café, located at 1499 Palm Coast Parkway NW, in the Belle Terre Crossings Shopping Plaza on the corner of Palm Coast Parkway and Belle Terre Parkway, with a steel drum band and Shelia’s Funnel Cakes on Saturday and $5 sandwiches. Open: 10 am – 6 pm.

“We’ve come to Palm Coast and we want to be part of the community,” said Peckham. “We’ve had a huge, great reception from people. They’re so wonderful.”