For Dallas-Fort Worth residents who recently noticed a White Rhino Coffee shop in their neighborhoods, it might seem like it simplyin Cedar Hill in 2007, company co-founder Chris Parvin took a pause before a big push: Waxahachie opened in 2018, then Dallas’ Bishop Arts District and Arlington in 2020; Fort Worth, Uptown Dallas and downtown Dallas in 2021; and Midlothian and Deep Ellum in 2022.
Today, their 10 coffee shops in North Texas sell tens of thousands of lattes a day, they say. The beans were roasted at a White Rhino-owned facility in West Dallas. Coffee is selected by a team of tasters who score it with White Rhino’s director of coffee, Gage Johnston.At that same facility, chefs in a commercial kitchen make all of White Rhino’s baked goods and sandwiches. That can be rare: Many indie coffee shops in North Texas hire bakeries or taco shops to make their food.
It can only work for companies that have at least a handful of coffee shops, Parvin says — and more is better.Breakfast bites include avocado toast and a maple-glazed chicken-on-a-biscuit. Snacks come in the form of vegan oatmeal cream pies, biscuit-and-gravy bites, and seasonal options like pumpkin whoopie pies. Two White Rhinos, in Uptown Dallas and Waxahachie, have a larger menu than the others.