Sons of Liberty Coffee is serving up its second location.
Set to expand in January 2021, the Fort Worth-born coffee shop is heading into Mean Green territory, opening at 1431 E. McKinney St., Ste. 150, in Denton. The shop will be called "Sons Coffee," while the original location on Lancaster Avenue will retain the "Sons of Liberty" name.
During a time when many coffee shops and small businesses found themselves closing locations due to the pandemic, Sons founder and owner Eder Teixeira says the company has had to learn to innovate as it pressed forward with expansion.
“We signed a lease before COVID-19, and we could have found a way out of the lease, but we chose to march forward with it,” he says. “We’ve innovated enough to survive through COVID and the new norm ... We had to figure out ways to run a shop with less labor and less cost while still accompanying customers, and we put a few things in place with the new layout of the new store to help survive should anything else happen."
The second Sons will occupy a vast, 4,300-square-foot space — double the size of the Lancaster location, making it one of the largest coffee shops in the DFW area. “It’s great because there's just so much space for the consumer. There's natural sunlight spots and dark secluded spots, and it provides plenty of room for people to socially distance,” says Teixeira.
And with more space comes more employees. Teixeria tells Fort Worth Magazine that the shop is adding a team of 15 for the new location, and in addition to the staff, Sons is also building a more barista-friendly coffee bar — meaning a new design that helps the barista maneuver orders more efficiently.
“We have a conveyor belt to help move drinks from one employee to the next, no refrigerators under the bar. We’ve developed a way to deliver milk without having employees constantly bending down,” says Teixeira.
Teixeira says Sons chose Denton for several reasons, “one being that the area was underserved, and we saw a need for it there, but we also just love Denton and the college neighborhood. We love the creatives. It’s full of interesting people, and we want to serve a community we know we’d get along with.”
