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From Coffee Kiosk To Billion-Dollar Business: How Scooter’s Became One Of America’s Top Franchises

Don and Linda Eckles founded the drive-through coffee chain in a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska three decades ago. It’s now one of the fastest-growing coffee brands in the country and it still doesn’t have a single location in the Northeast or on the West Coast.

More than a decade into running his Omaha-based coffeeshop chain Scooter’s, founder Don Eckles wrote a letter to Warren Buffett to see if Berkshire Hathaway might be interested in buying his business. The Oracle of his hometown wrote back asking for … [8309 chars]

Source: Forbes | Published: 2026-04-25T10:30:00Z

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