Two local coffee shops are adding more stores to keep consumers caffeinated amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Although some local restaurants are closing or limiting dine-in options this year, Mean Mug and Goodman Coffee are expanding with new locations.
Goodman opened a new retail coffee shop adjacent to its wholesale roaster in St. Elmo this week and Mean Mug plans to open another store in Fort Oglethorpe this fall and another outlet in East Brainerd in spring 2021.
“We saw that there’s a demand for what we’re doing,” Mean Mug Co-owner Monica Smith said. “We’re kind of at the point where we’ve almost outgrown the amount of business we can do out of our Southside location, and now our North Shore location is almost doing as much business as the Southside.”
The first Mean Mug opened on Main Street nine years ago, followed by a second location that opened on the North Shore in 2017. That same year, Mean Mug started roasting its own coffee.
Ian Goodman, who…
