Tag: Wild Way Coffee

Wild Way closing: Coffee camper drips bittersweet blend of emotions as owner’s cup runs dry

By Tommy Felts / June 21, 2024

Nearly six years after she began serving lattes in her popular Wild Way coffee camper, Christine Clutton is saying goodbye to the business at the end of the month, she confirmed. Wild Way Coffee — featured on the Peacock series “The Simple Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” and approved by KC-raised actor Jason Sudeikis —…

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Why one entrepreneur is Swiftly rolling up the warehouse doors for thirsty Chiefs parade-goers

By Tommy Felts / February 13, 2024

Wednesday’s Chiefs victory parade will be the city’s third in four years, but for East Crossroads-based Wild Way Coffee, the 2024 rolling downtown-to-midtown event hits different, said Christine Clutton. The brand’s iconic mobile coffee camper — stationed in the Wild Way warehouse at 708 E. 19th St. for the winter — will once again open…

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Wild Way gets its big fika break: KC’s perkiest coffee camper parks a starring role on Peacock series

By Tommy Felts / May 9, 2023

Seeing her coffee camper featured on the Peacock series “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” is a wild and surreal experience, Wild Way Coffee owner Christine Clutton shared. On top of offering a caffeine boost for the production crew of the series — which debuted at the end of April on NBC’s streaming platform…

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Anne Lewis Marzette, Easy as Pie; headshot photo by @pilsonphotocoop

Dough-re-mi: Choir teacher’s pop-up pie hustle bakes her second verse from scratch

By Tommy Felts / January 24, 2022

On any given weekday, Ann Lewis Marzette can be found in the classroom, teaching and training students in the Kearney Middle School choir.  But when the clock strikes 3 p.m., she trades sheet music and scales for mixing bowls and measuring cups, embracing a side hustle that has her singing dough-re-mi — while customers serenade…

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