The Filling Station: Where Nature and Coffee Collide
How do two people who love a great cup of coffee turn that appreciation into a business?
Meg Enns and Mary Kremzner, owners of the two Filling Station Coffee Shops, didn’t need to wake up and smell the coffee. They knew that offering outstanding specialty coffee in an unique setting would have the communities of Sparks and Worthington Valley buzzing.
Meg, the owner and operator of the Filling Station Coffee Shop, has been a coffee purveyor for more than 12 years. She opened one of Atlanta’s first coffee houses–an urban oasis of live music and gourmet coffee–in 1991. Homage Coffee House became an integral part of Atlanta’s music scene and hosted a number of up-and-coming bands, including the experimental jazz group, Medeski, Martin and Wood. In 1996, the group wooed her to move to New York City to be its tour manager and operate its merchandising business.
Meg went from working late nights to the early morning shift when she left Manhattan in 2006 to open the Filling Station Coffee Shop on Falls Road. Coffee lovers and local folks who wanted a place to gather and fuel up in the best sense of the word have made it a success. Recently, Meg opened a second Filling Station in Sparks.
Mary, who is a partner in business, is a doctor of pharmacy who has worked for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a pharmacologist since 1996. She can also make a mean latte.
Both experience baristas, Meg and Mary have a strong staff of 15 baristas and divide their time between the two locations.