A decade after opening its Main Street location, the Mean Mug Coffeehouse is looking to expand its operation with two new locations, a roasting facility in a warehouse in the Highland Park area, and it has plans to begin franchising in the next six months to a year.
It opened a location on Manufacturers Road in 2017 in the old Knitting Mill and opened a new location on Battlefield Parkway in Fort Oglethorpe two weeks ago. Mean Mug has plans to open a fourth location in East Brainerd in the Loft by Marriott Hotel by Hamilton Place in the next two months.
Co-owner Monica Smith said the menu, and the coffee, which is roasted currently at the Northshore location, is the same at each place, but each is designed to be representative of the area where it is located.
“They are like children,” she said. “You can tell they came from the same parents, but each has its own characteristics.”
The menu offers a “variety of options for people no matter what diet they are on, or not on,” Smith said.