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A pair of Fort Collins restaurants opened in June along Harmony Road, ticking off the list of long-awaited eateries set to open their doors this summer.

No restaurants closed in Fort Collins this month.

Several announced new plans for Northern Colorado, including an Old Town doughnut shop move, construction of a new drive-thru coffee stop and the possible addition of two chain restaurants.

Here's the latest from the Fort Collins food scene.

Cheba Hut,2550 E. Harmony Road, is officially toasting up subs in south Fort Collins. The sandwich chain opened its third Choice City location June 21, joining its existing spots on Taft Hill Road and Laurel Street.

The new location once home to McAllister's Deli features an indoor/outdoor bar and pickup window for to-go orders.

Cheba Hut's Harmony Road spot is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays.

Los Chingones,3541 E. Harmony Road, opened in Fort Collins' Harmony Commons on June 25, cementing its expansion into Northern Colorado.

The Denver-born Mexican restaurant boasts signature dishes like its Birria Tacos and Baja Fish Tacos, as well as new menu items special to Fort Collins, like aMexican Cotija Taco, Bang Bang Crispy Shrimp Taco andPork Carnitas Taco.

Los Chingones is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

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Fort Collins Donut Company or Foco Doco is moving out of its tiny shipping container space in Old Town's The Exchange.

The shop will go from a 160-square-foot space to a larger northern portion of Scrumpy's Hard Cider Bar, which is located across the street at215 N. College Ave.

Fort Collins Donut Company will operate as a coffee bar while producing doughnuts in a back kitchen, according to the company's owner Megan Barghols.

The doughnut shop's last day in The Exchange will be July 18. It is set to reopen in Scrumpy's by the last weekend in July.

The Human Bean is working on its first permanent Wellington location, which will beits 11th drive-thru coffee shop in Northern Colorado. Construction on the drive-thru located at 8121 SixthAve. is set to start this year.

After years of parking its Human Bean mobile coffee truck at Wellington's Ridley's Family Market, the Northern Colorado coffee chain is putting down brick-and-mortar roots in the town.

"The residents here have always supported our coffee truck, and it is the type of close-knit community we enjoy being a part of," Human Bean owner Frank Sherman said in a news release about the new location.

Marco's Pizza is in expansion mode in Colorado, possibly bringing locations of the pizza chain to Fort Collins in the coming years.

The Ohio-based pizza chainrecently announced a duo of development agreements that will bring 20 new Marco's Pizza locations to Denver, Fort Collins and communities in betweenby 2024, according to a news release.

The chain has roughly 16 current Colorado locations stretching from Greeley to Colorado Springs.

Taco John's is planning to buildfive new locations andremodel all of its existing spots in Northern Colorado as part of a new franchise agreement.

The fast-food Mexican chain currently has two locations in Fort Collins and one in Windsor.

Details on where exactly the new locations will be built in Northern Colorado were not available Wednesday.

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Erin Udell reports on news, culture, history and more for the Coloradoan. Contact her at ErinUdell@coloradoan.com. The only way she can keep doing what she does is with your support. If you subscribe, thank you. If not, sign up for a digital subscription to the Coloradoan today.

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