Exit 11 in the News
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Exit 11 Coffee named one of the fastest growing privately-owned companies in the Midwest
March 8, 2023
Exit 11 Coffee, LLC, has made Inc. Magazine’s List of the Midwest Region’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The company is ranked 76th on the list, and the award acknowledges Exit 11’s 222 percent two-year growth through Dec. 31, 2021.
At that time Exit 11 Coffee operated three drive-thru coffee houses in rural Franklin County. The company has since grown even more, opening two new drive-thru locations last summer in St. Peters and Brentwood, Missouri.
Exit 11 Coffee Ranks No. 76 on Inc. Magazine’s List of the Midwest Region’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
February 28, 2023
Inc. magazine today revealed that Exit 11 Coffee, LLC is No. 76 on its third annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: Midwest list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing Midwest private companies, based in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Exit 11 Coffee Coming To S. Brentwood
July 11, 2022
Those with caffeine cravings forlorn over the departure of Bonaventure Coffee, 2944 S. Brentwood Blvd., will be delighted to know a new java joint will soon open in its place.
Exit 11 Coffee is scheduled to open in early July. Founder and CEO Angela Garland said she feels right at home at this location, having grown up in Webster Groves and raised her four children in Kirkwood and Shrewsbury.
Drive-thru coffee location opening in St. Peters this month
May 22, 2022
A Washington, Missouri-based drive-thru coffee concept is set to open this week in St. Peters at the 5230 MO-94 parking lot, on the JBloom Designs corporate campus.
Exit 11 Owner Angela Garland Named in Small Business Monthly’s Top 100 St. Louisans to Know
April 2022
Angela Garland is the founder and CEO of Exit 11 Coffee, LLC, in Washington, MO, which operates Exit 11 Workspace and Coffee House, a Roastery and three coffee drive-thru businesses in Franklin County. A drive-thru location in Saint Peter’s, MO, has recently opened and 25 new locations are planned over the next five years.
Drive-thru coffee location opening in St. Peters this month
March 30, 2022
Exit 11 Coffee is growing with a new brick-and-mortar location in St. Peters, the company’s first expansion outside of Franklin County.
Though the company is diverging from its bright orange “clementine” trailers with its newest location, the business model is the same. With service windows on both sides of the compact cafe, employees will greet drive-thru customers as they do at the company’s trailers in Union and Washington.
Exit 11 finds a way to expand during the pandemic
April 7, 2021
Co-owner Angela Garland has grown the business from a coworking–and–coffee concept in Washington, Missouri, to three successful coffee trailers. Now she hopes to expand to St. Louis and beyond.
Exit 11 opens third drive-thru location in Washington, MO
March 1, 2021
On 27 November 2020, Exit 11 Coffee LLC opened its third drive-thru location in Washington, MO located at 1900 Phoenix Center Dr. The two-sided drive-thru trailer is permanently parked on the lot behind the Cinema 1 Plus Theater.
Exit 11 Opens Coffee-Centered Drive-Thru Trailers, Online Store
July 10, 2020
The owners of Exit 11 – a coffeehouse and co-working center in Franklin County, roughly an hour’s drive west of Ladue – expanded their business just as the economy took a major downturn. Fortunately, they opened the right type of business to succeed during the COVID-19 shutdown.
Exit 11 Coffee expands to new drive-thru location
May 15, 2020
On 13 March 2020, just days before the coronavirus-related business closures in the US Franklin County, Exit 11 Coffee LLC opened its second drive-thru location in Union, Missouri, located at 1579 Denmark Rd.
A New Drive-Thru Opened in Union, Missouri, Just Before COVID-19. Business is Booming.
May 1, 2020
Opening a new business in the midst of a global pandemic might seem like a disaster waiting to happen. But for one coffee drive-thru, it's been an unmitigated success.