Big doings with big frog

One positive sign on the economy: People are buying a lot of T-shirts.

Proof is in Dunedin-based Big Frog Custom T-Shirts and More, a chain of fast-order, high-tech T-shirt design stores. Big Frog is in the midst of one of its best years ever, with systemwide revenues up 26.8% in the first quarter over the same quarter last year. And that comes on the heels of previous stellar growth in new stores, average sales per store and systemwide revenues.

More good news: The Big Frog location in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood is on pace in 2016 to become the first store in the chain to surpass $1 million in annual sales. “That's pretty exciting,” Big Frog President Tina Bacon-DeFrece tells Coffee Talk.