Dennis operates Cafe Soleil, located at 553 Bernard Avenue, with his wife, son, and six non-familial staff members, along with the periodic help of an accountant to do the books and payroll.

While the Cafe is only open a total of 40 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.), there are still cleaning chores and office duties to be done afterwards. One of the latter duties is ordering supplies. “Everything is pretty much from Neptune Food Services,” says Dennis who is pleased that he can handle his transactions with them online. His bread, however, he gets fresh six days a week from the Royal Bakery.

Cafe Soleil has an all-day breakfast, which offers the customers five meat and five bread choices. The Cafe, however, also provides an interesting and nutritious luncheon service. Everything that can be “made from scratch,” is made that way.

The Cafe roasts two to three turkeys each week, the meat of which is used in various menu selections. The cook also makes a delicious turkey and wild rice soup with some of it. During the summer, Dennis offers only two soup selections, but in the winter it becomes three.

Since Dennis has always wanted to have his own business–a wish he realized on December 01, 2006–he is doing his utmost to make and keep it successful. He is a hard worker. In addition to the 40+ hours spent at his restaurant, he still works full time at Costco in the produce department.

After Dennis gained experience managing a restaurant, he went to work for Costco in Lethbridge, then on to Toronto and finally, at his request, transferred to Kelowna 10 years ago where his mother and her family lived in the early 1930s prior to moving to Saskatchewan and then to Alberta where Dennis Perley was born. Now he is here raising his family where his mother was raised; and he doesn’t hesitate to say, “I love Kelowna.”