{"id":346797,"date":"2025-11-01T00:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346797\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:51:10","slug":"international-coffee-chain-plans-13-houston-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346797\/","title":{"rendered":"International coffee chain plans 13 Houston locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 A Miami- and Bogota, Colombia-based coffee shop chain is coming to Houston as part of a Texas expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Qargo Coffee said it has signed franchise agreements for 13 coffee shops in H-Town and three have signed leases.<\/p>\n<p>The first is planned for the Shops at Deerbrook retail center at 8910 FM 1960 Bypass Road West in the Humble area. Qargo said the opening is expected in the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>The company describes its mission as fusing \u201cItalian tradition with the American pace of life.\u201d The menu includes not just coffee drinks but also boba tea, smoothies, ice cream, desserts, and breakfast and lunch items.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cHouston\u2019s energy, diversity, and love for premium coffee make it the perfect home for our next wave of openings,\u201d Qargo Coffee President Bernadette Bastorous said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/money\/business\/houston-business-journal\/italian-coffee-chain-quargo-houston-locations\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a> and include the best way to reach you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 A Miami- and Bogota, Colombia-based coffee shop chain is coming to Houston as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":346798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-346797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115471704685712099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}