UPDATED — Mulvane residents are also getting a new option for coffee.
Donna and Terry Mathis are opening Sweetie’s Gourmet Coffee & Candies on Thursday or Friday at 222 N. Second Ave.
“We were just going to do a little candy store,” Donna Mathis says.
Then they began researching candy shops and toured the Ghiradelli plant in San Diego.
“The more we researched, the more it grew.”
They decided to serve breakfast and lunch daily with dishes such as quiche bites, biscuits and gravy, bierocks and specialty sandwiches.
In addition to serving coffee, lattes and espresso, they’ll also sell coffee by the bag and whole bean or ground coffee by the pound.
Terry Mathis works at PrairieFire Coffee Roasters, and Donna Mathis used to as well. She admits coffee is something of an obession for them.
“Just a tad bit, yeah.”
Mathis says she and her husband have always wanted their own place.
“We’ve been working on this for five years,” she says. “It’s actually an answer to prayers.”