HTeaO, a Texas-based chain offering nearly 30 types of tea, just opened its first Chattanooga store at 6212 Hixson Pike.
Co-owners Chris Johnson and Shelley Jones, who is also the Hixson store’s general manager, said they eventually plan to open five more locations in the Chattanooga area, with Ooltewah and Soddy-Daisy among the areas they are eyeing for potential expansion.
The couple is from Amarillo, Texas, where the chain started.
“We actually watched the first two go in, and then we watched it grow and grow and grow,” Jones said of the chain.
It has now expanded to 125 locations across 14 states, from Arizona up to Colorado and Missouri and east into Louisiana and Florida, according to the company’s website.