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FROM BISCUITS TO BREAKFAST TACOS Entrepreneur and Maple Street Biscuit Co. founder Scott Moore cooks up his next restaurant venture, Calico Cactus.
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Steakhouse planned for Downtown building PAGE 8
CITY GOVERNMENT
Talks resume on incentives deal for historic Trio PAGE 4
Each Calico Cactus will feature a full barista-staffed coffee bar.
BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR AT LARGE
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cott Moore figured there was a big niche in breakfast and lunch, which he proved by selling his first concept after seven years for $36 million. Cash. To him, his co-founder, investors – and store leaders. That’s what Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. paid in 2019 for Maple Street Biscuit Co., which sells biscuit
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Scott Moore is launching Calico Cactus, A Modern Taco Shop, in St. Augustine.
sandwiches, as well as coffee and now other items, for breakfast and lunch. If a business based on biscuits can rise to that degree, Moore hopes that his next big idea follows suit. That would be breakfast tacos. And a coffee bar. “There was this whole space that we didn’t know was there,” Moore says as he prepares to open his first Calico Cactus, A Modern Taco Shop, in St. Augustine. Its tagline is Tacos-Queso-Coffee. With the 2019 purchase, Moore com-
mitted to stay with Maple Street for three years and moved near Cracker Barrel’s Lebanon, Tennessee, headquarters. His noncompete concluded in November 2023. “Candidly, I struggled to figure out what the next thing was,” said Moore, 63. He researched trends and found that breakfast tacos are big in Austin and other parts of Texas. To the north, he found King David SEE MOORE, PAGE 6
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Freed to Run hits fundraising goal Nearly 150 participants made financial pledges and then ran, jogged, walked or pushed strollers for 12 or 24 hours on a half-mile loop around the Duval County Courthouse. PAGE 14
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