Flywheel Coffee is hoping to take off in KCK
Jon Freeman is having a premonition. On a frigid Tuesday in February, the owner of two-month-old Flywheel Coffee, the tiny shop at 548 Central in Kansas City, Kansas, surveys the traffic speeding by.
“Every time I sit down with someone,” he says as he slides a chair back from one of Flywheel’s four tables, “it gets busy.”
Before Freeman, 41, can sit, the door swings open, sending him behind the counter again. The customer is a regular.
“There are not too many places that I can go to get a coffee, where I can walk through the grounds that were used to make the coffee,” the man jokes.
He’s teasing Freeman, who has been using espresso grounds to fertilize the grass seed planted in a small, spotty patch next to the shop’s parking lot.
Freeman pushes up the sleeves of his brown hoodie, revealing another pair of sleeves in ink – a reminder of his days playing bass in bands like the Shaker Hoods – and works his equipment. He retorts: “There’s going to be lush green grass where I can put my picnic tables this summer.”
