“You don’t open a coffee company and dream of being No. 4.”
Gabriel Shohet
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Black Sheep Coffee
.…on opening the U.K.-based company’s second North Texas location on East Mockingbird Lane in Dallas, via the Dallas Morning News.
Coffee with a British accent is politely muscling into North Texas, as anyone driving down East Mockingbird Lane in Dallas this week could tell you. Founded in London, England, in 2013 by college friends Gabriel Shohet and Eirik Holth, Black Sheep Coffee has 110 restaurant locations in the U.K., France, the United Arab Emirates, and Philippines, and now the U.S. That total includes the newly opened 6240 E. Mockingbird location (housed in a former drive-thru bank) and one at Preston Parkway Center in Plano, which opened a few months ago.
Those Dallas-area locations are Black Sheep’s first foray into the U.S., but the brand has plans for many more, including locations in Grapevine and Austin, Co-CEO Gabriel Shohet told the Dallas Morning News’ Sarah Blaskovich.
“We want to be the biggest coffee company in the world,” Shoet told her.
For more on Black Sheep—including former Dallas Mavericks player Kristaps Porziņģis’ status as an investor—read the DMN story here.
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