‘Influx’ Coffee Shop To Open Inside FluxMade Custom Furniture

Fabrication studio and showroom jumping on growing trend of staging food experiences.

FluxMade, a millwork and custom furniture shop on the Westside, is jumping on growing trend: everyday businesses and retailers staging food experiences.

Allison Hyer, the company’s CEO, this week filed plans with City of Atlanta to add a coffee house called “Influx” at the furniture shop.

“We are adding a coffee shop to become a creative space to eat, drink, shop and create on the Westside,” Hyer told What Now Atlanta in an email this week. Adjacent space houses “my offices and furniture fabrication studio and showroom.”

An estimated $38,000 will be spent converting the 5,109-square-foot warehouse space into the coffee shop.

FluxMade, opened in 2014 by “a master craftsman, an architect and a designer,” fabricates furnishings and millwork for the restaurant, retail and residential industries.

Huge, a creative agency in Midtown, was one of the first businesses to do this in Atlanta when the international organization last year opened a street-level cafe.

Chrome Yellow and Henry and June, two recently-opened Atlanta boutiques, have a coffee shop component, and in both cases, closer to the street than the retail portion of the businesses.

With online shopping on-the-rise, retailers like Ralph Lauren and Gucci are making headlines through recent efforts to strength the brick-and-mortar experience by adding food and drink, with the goal of attracting more foot traffic and lengthen browsing time.

Hyer was not immediatley available to discuss the specifics of the soon-to-open coffee shop. 

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