Middle Tennessee is getting a jolt of espresso-fueled expansion as Who Brew LLC, the franchise group behind a growing cluster of 7 Brew drive-thru stands, accelerates openings around the region. New locations are lined up in La Vergne and White House, with additional sites in Columbia and Murfreesboro surfacing in city paperwork. The latest push builds on the group’s Middle Tennessee rollout that kicked off in 2023.
“Middle Tennessee is a really good fit. So much of the brand is fun and energetic,” Sarah Pomella said in an interview with What Now Nashville. Pomella, chief of staff for Who Brew LLC, told the outlet that the franchisee also runs 7 Brew stands outside Tennessee and has leaned on feedback from local guests when scouting new sites.
Planned openings and permits
7 Brew’s locations page lists 5355 Murfreesboro Road in La Vergne as “Coming Soon” on Feb. 23, which confirms the first of the new stand openings. Construction drawings and permit materials for 355 Hester Drive in White House describe a prefabricated, drive-thru-only building and line up with a targeted March 2 opening, according to documents filed on Scribd. Local reporting points to a Columbia stand slated for late March, and city planning filings indicate that an 817 square foot kiosk is being proposed at 2220 Memorial Blvd in Murfreesboro, according to What Now Nashville.
Local sites and market context
The La Vergne pad is being marketed as a compact, highway-facing net-lease opportunity, with listing materials describing a roughly 750 square foot building in an Aldi-anchored shopping center and a new traffic signal meant to improve access, a combination investors say fits a fast drive-thru concept. On the national stage, 7 Brew has been on a rapid growth track in recent years, scaling to hundreds of stands and even piloting walk-up formats as it stretches beyond its original drive-thru-only model.
What to expect
Who Brew says it plans to keep adding sites around the Nashville metro through the rest of the year as it builds out its Middle Tennessee footprint. For local coffee fans, that means more late-night drive-thru options and one more franchise fighting for those bleary-eyed morning and after-work crowds.
