Biggby Coffee of Big Rapids

Biggby Coffee is a coffee shop, part of a chain, located in Big Rapids, MI along State St. not far from the Williams Auditorium. It proved one of the most friendly establishments for Dozerfleet creations in the city, and became a point of interest in a few of them.

Area history
Biggby started moving in to the complex that it was in some time in June of 2008, and was open for business by the summer of 2009. It was set to compete with the Starbucks inside the IRC building. It began life with a warm, orange and brown interior. While having better offerings than Starbucks in general; service at the location, according to Google Reviews, has been inconsistent throughout its run.

In 2019, the store underwent a remodel, to make it more colorful. It's debatable if this recolor has helped the store any. The front entrance interior wall was painted blue, with most of the walls in the eating area being painted red. The ordering station walls were painted yellow, and the back wall was green.

The new It was fairly unaffected by Whitmer's unconstitutional edicts in 2020, allowing it to remain in business much more than a lot of other locations in Big Rapids.

Literature / comics
The first notable time that Biggby played a role in Dozerfleet history was in 2009, when the interior of it was used as a double for the Scarface Beverages of Dirbine in Ciem 2. In Volkonir Meets the Power Rangers, Kim buys Vinny a new coffee mug, to replace the one she smashed to weaken Slaisionnach with. They comment on this as they head to Mancino's, and Vinny comments to MODM about how identical Biggby and Mancino's in the Rangers' world are to his own world's versions. This is the point where MODM first explains the "Every Big Rapids is the Same" rule to Vinny.

Biggby has also been determined as a location for Hadley to visit during her time loop adventures in Sorbet. Likewise, this location has been planned as a location for Blood Over Water: The Comic - to compensate for its exclusion from the original miniseries.

Television
There were suggestions to shoot episode 2 of Blood Over Water here, but not everyone in the class wanted to go along with that. The original cut of that scene was near the Starbucks inside the IRC building, which could have been disastrous for broadcast given Starbucks' protection of its logo and trademark at the time. Eventually, a different section of IRC was used for that scene, eliminating the need to incorporate either Biggby or Starbucks.

Video games
With two custom signs being made for its release for The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff, Biggby of Big Rapids translated fairly well into a 30x20 cafe lot for Sims players. Arguably, it works in-game better than the Mancino's build does, given the lack of side locations and events.

To make this particular lot for the game; Rite Aid, Qdoba, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Verizon, and Domino's had to be left out. The Biggby section of its suite had to be converted into an standalone building. The trailer for the game, as presented on YouTube, does its best to cover up the fact that the other businesses are missing in-game. With the location's outdoor signs having been made as special custom meshes, players may reverse-engineer this lot's aesthetics to create any Biggby store they so desire.

The lot in-game reverts Biggby to its internal design pre-2019. While not identical, the build seeks to produce a look that's "recognizable" to Big Rapids locals.

Further viewing

 * Biggby of Big Rapids on Google Street View