Franklin's Hot Spot Coffee expands, new menus
By wherald
Franklin’s popular Hot Spot Coffee, on Hwy. 96 West near the corner of Downs Boulevard, has instituted a few big changes.
Hot Spot Coffee is adding a breakfast menu and expanding the lunch menu to include sandwiches, soups, salads and panini sandwiches.
Costco Wholesale is promoting the coffee local brand and selling Hot Spot Coffee gift cards through the holidays. Hot Spot has added new drip coffees with featured origins and flavors fresh from a new local supplier.
One of the biggest problems with far west side of Franklin is that there is nowhere to get any breakfast food. Although it has been something Hot Spot has avoided for years to focus on being a coffee shop, starting Nov. 1, Hot Spot Coffee began offering a breakfast selection.
“It’s the biggest thing our customers have wanted since day one,” said John Kromm, co-owner of the coffee shop. “People love our pastries, but have been really wanting something more substantial and less sweet – proteins really.”
The shop is branching out to offer high-end breakfast sandwiches, oatmeal, parfaits, and homemade quiche.
Hot Spot is also expanding on the success of their lunch menu.
“I always thought lunch would be successful but all we really did was put a small decal on our front window,” Kromm said. “Our lunch crowd has just grown from our coffee crowd, and not even all of them know we have lunch.”
Hot Spot has expanded the menu and has plans to hang a full-scale lunch menu above the counter.
“We started this as a coffee shop, but people are demanding a café complete with lunch and breakfast,” Kromm said. “Who are we to disagree?”
Costco Wholesale, one of the biggest retailers in Williamson County, has teamed up with Franklin’s favorite coffee shop to sell gift cards through the holiday season.
“This is huge for us,” said Shannon Kromm, co-owner of Hot Spot Coffee. “It’s like a great big seal of approval that they think we are worthy.”
Hot Spot Coffee also plans to add selections to the drip coffee line, which had been serving only a single type of drip coffee.
The timing coincides with a new local coffee roaster located just around the corner with the first air roaster in the area.
All of Hot Spot Coffee's beans are air roasted, which means they are never burnt or bitter in taste. Air roasting is a relatively new way of roasting beans and it hasn’t caught on everywhere..
The new drip coffees will be locally roasted and feature well known origins such as Sumatran, Kenyan, & Costa Rican. Flavored coffees will be seasonally selected and vary from day to day.
Posted on: 11/5/2009
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