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Posted on Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 8:38 am The Scooter’s Coffee located at Broadway and Old 63 in Columbia was opened on Jan. 8, 2019. Photo by Barry Dalton By Barry Dalton   Scooter’s Coffee, the Midwest startup that has been giving Starbucks a run for its money in Columbia and Jefferson City the past two years, is coming to Mexico. The local franchise owners, Deena Parrish and Todd Lockhart, plan to build their new location at 2925 S. Clark St., across from the Commerce Bank on the north side of the new Homebank. “The owners have ties to the area, as Todd worked for A.P. Gree...

Brothers (left to right) Todd, Trevor and Tim Vettel with wives Theresa, Lindsey and Melissa. Like many franchisees, Todd Vettel and brothers Tim and Trevor were customers first, in this case of Omaha, Nebraska-based Scooter’s Coffee, which has a location about 100 feet from Vettel’s 9Round gym in the capital of Lincoln. “We started stopping in there all the time. We always see how busy it is, it’s constantly flowing,” said Todd Vettel of the drive-thru coffee concept. “We always thought it looked alluring. When COVID happened and we shut our gyms down for two mo...