Construction is now underway on Wichita’s third Mokas Coffee & Eatery at 3851 N. Ridge Road. This week, the owner of Mokas’ parent company JRI Hospitality said that the shop should be ready to open in March or early April just north of the strip center on the northwest corner of 37th and Ridge.
And that’s not the only recent news about Mokas, which started as a single coffee shop in Salina in 2005 and has since grown into a chain that has locations not only in Wichita and Salina but also in Colby and in Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona.
Mokas recently announced that it had signed on its first franchisee. Christian Coleman, son of Wichita’s Sheldon Coleman, recently signed a six-unit agreement to build Mokas stores in the Kansas City metro, Lawrence and Topeka markets. He plans to open his first store in Olathe in March…