Always evolving, Horrocks Farm Market hopes to have next major store change open this fall

DELTA TWP. — Horrocks Farm Market customers can already enjoy pizza, sip beer and wine while they shop, choose from the store's specialty popcorn selections and order cups of gelato. This fall they'll get one more option.

The Delta Township store will offer classic European coffee drinks, cups of brewed coffee and tea and flavored Italian sodas served to order at a new coffee bar.

The coffee bar, which will be added to the 7420 W Saginaw Hwy. store's existing coffee department, is an extension of the business's coffee roasting operation, said Kim Horrocks, an owner.

"We do a lot with coffee," he said. "We have a lot of variety there."

The coffee bar will offer "all of these different kinds of coffee and exotic combinations that can be offered over the counter," Horrocks said.

Horrocks General Manager Dan Dunn said that the store's owners have talked about adding a coffee bar for nearly a decade. The addition will be called The Coffee House, he said, and management hopes to grow the concept in the future, with eventual plans to add seating and tasting events.

"It's one of the ideas that the owners have had for a very long time," Dunn said. "One of the things I like about working here is that we're encouraged to talk to our customers, listen to them, and they talk about the simple drinks that they were able to get, either at a soda fountain or at a Mom and Pop coffee shop somewhere, you know? So we're going to kind of focus on that stuff."

Expect to see specialty coffee drinks, including lattes and cappuccinos, on the menu along with various brewed coffee options, tea and flavored Italian sodas. Horrocks will use coffee beans it roasts in-house behind the counter.

"And then we will feature some of the flavored stuff that we get from Paramount," Dunn said.

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Unlike the free brewed coffee offered by the cup at the store before the COVID-19 pandemic, staff will charge customers who order options at The Coffee House, he said.

"I think we can do a really good job of it, and I've got a really excited crew I'm starting to build, and I think it's going to be a lot of fun and a good thing," Dunn said. "We're hoping that it'll grow. That vision down the road will be seating, and maybe some other fun, special events. We're talking about doing some tastings. That'll be later on after we get our feet wet and get established."

Plans for adding the coffee bar are already in the works, he said, and management hopes to open it sometime this fall.

"Our goal is to have it definitely open before the holidays," Dunn said.

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