- November 17, 2025
A local business in Flagler County is opening a new location in The Hammock after much demand from its customers.
World Plate Market, located at 2 Armand Beach Drive, Suite 1B, opens on Oct. 29 and is a new grab-and-go expansion on World Plate’s other services for catering and event planning. The new location will also house World Plate’s events services, owner Sue Wicklund said.
“We’ll be a true market,” Wicklund said. “An exchange of goods and services.”
Wicklund said World Plate has been looking to expand into a new location for a while, and they chose The Hammock after their Hammock customers sent “an abundance of emails” asking World Plate if they could open up a location in the area. Prior to this new location, the nearest World Plate — which has been operating for eight years — was in Bunnell.
The bulk of World Plate’s customers reside in The Hammock area, she said, and would commute to Bunnell for their services.
“So this is going to be really a nice treat for them, because now we’re pretty much in their backyard,” Wicklund said. “We’re going to be a lot closer to them. And I think it’s going to be a great thing.”
The Hammock location will have pre-packaged, gourmet grab-and-go food, with cold- and hot-food options as well as snacks and platters.
The grab-and-go is an extension of World Plate’s catering services, she said. Grab-and-go options include meails or hor d’oeuvres samplers.
A “take and bake” option will also be available, Wicklund said.
Wicklund said not only will customers be able to grab World Plate’s recipes for lunch, but The Hammock location will now be the pick-up location for catering orders. This allows their Bunnell location to be strictly production, she said.
World Plate features flavors from seven different types of cuisine: Italian,French, German, Greek, Asian, Latin and Middle Eastern. Wicklund’s husband and co-owner Erick Wicklund is the business’ chef with over 30 years of experience. He has taken his experience with a variety of cuisine and is bringing that “forward with this grab-and-go,” she said.
On Sundays, through the end of the year, Wicklund said The Hammock location will also offer to-go dinners for two that customers can order ahead of time. To-go dinner orders can be placed online by 11 a.m. on Sundays and picked up by 4:45 p.m. on Sundays.
She said they plan to offer the to-go dinners on some weekdays as well in the New Year.
“We just want to kind of do a trial and see how that goes,” she said.
After eight years of operating World Plate, Wicklund said they are very grateful for the support of their customers over the years. World Plate started out of St. Joe Plaza in Palm Coast in September 2017, but quickly outgrew it, expanding into Bunnell, Orlando and, for a short time, St. Augustine.
Now, Wicklund said, their production facility has the capacity to cater an event with over 500 guests.
“It’s been great, the support that’s been provided to us, and we look forward to being in The Hammock,” she said.
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