Farragut can expect a new coffee shop
Farragut can expect to have a new coffee shop in Town.
Tyler Brown and Daniel Witteck with 7 Brew Coffee of Alabama presented a site plan at Farragut’s Staff-Planner meeting Tuesday, Aug. 5, for a coffee shop to be built in the parking lot of PGA Superstore along Parkside Drive.
That plan, then, was approved by Farragut Municipal Planning Commission during its meeting Thursday, Aug. 23.
7 Brew Coffee, with Southern Brew Corp. as the franchise owner for North and Central Alabama, is a coffee chain focused on the drive-through experience, according to its website.
With its start in Arkansas and growing to more than 190 stands across the country, it offers a variety of drinks, including orginal coffees, energy drinks, teas, lemonades, smoothies and shakes.
“It’s pretty much 100-percent brick building, except for the windows,” Town Community Development director Mark Shipley observed during the Staff-Planner meeting. “(The building’s) only 500 square feet.”
During the FMPC meeting, he acknowledged it would be a unique use of space in a large parking lot, such as that at PGA Superstore.
“What we typically do is brick and then (use) hardy above it, but with the square footage change and I know your requirement for masonry is pretty stringent,” Witteck said.
Witteck and Brown were asked to bring a color board with the brick samples to the Farragut Municipal Planning Commission meeting on Thursday, Aug. 14.
“There’s actually more landscaping after this project than there is out there now,” Shipley said. “So, that’s a good thing.”
However, he asked, “how does this drive lane work?”
“So, the three lanes are meant, where volume requires, we would serve all three lanes, but the first two lanes are under the canopy, and those are our main two serving lanes,” Brown explained. “The outside third lane acts as a bypass for large vehicles.
“If there’s a ton of volume, then we would use that third lane to serve as well,” he added.
“Do they carry the coffee out to (the customers)?” Shipley asked.
“Yes, sir,” Brown said. “It’s like a Chic-fil-A, but with no drive-thru window.”
“There’s no passage window, where someone’s handing something out to someone,” Witteck said. “It will always be a runner coming from inside, running it out to whichever car is getting their order and running back inside.
“So it’s run by people in their early 20s who are running everywhere,” he added and laughed.
