Robin and Fran Cattani want customers who enter the Mister Soda Pops store to feel wonder and even nostalgia.
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The couple opened the store last summer in the former Fine Wine and Good Spirits location at 317 West Lincoln Highway in Penndel Borough.
The shelves, according to Fran, are stocked with more than 1,000 types of specialty sodas, ranging from ones that taste like Mike and Ike’s to flavors not typically found on the East Coast. The store even has sodas created with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump’s faces on the bottles.
“There is something for everyone,” he said. “Here, 95 percent of the products we carry will never be seen in grocery stores.”
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“People will come from an hour away to get what they want,” Fran added. He noted that customers have come from around Bucks County and places much further away to find a hard-to-find or unique sodas or treats.
Robin, Fran’s wife, showed off the old-time candy and foreign candies, including from the U.K., Poland, and Asia, that has become popular.
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“People just love this,” she said. “It makes them feel like a kid.”
Over the past year, Mister Soda Pops has added craft cocktail mixers, BBQ sauces, hot sauces, and jerky, which is more than just beef.
Mister Soda Pops features regional staples like A-Treat soda and Charles Chips.
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The store also has many of the items at prices cheaper than online, the couple pointed out.
“This is like the happiest store on Earth,” Robin said with a laugh.
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The Cattanis, who own the shopping center where their store is based, said Mister Soda Pops is designed to bring customers of all ages back to a simpler time with fewer distractions.
Fran said he spotted a store in California that sold specialty soda and the concept went from there.
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“My wife and the accountant both thought that I was crazy,” he said. “But I knew there was a need for it. I thought about it during the pandemic.”
Fran has worked in the beer industry for 30 years and his family has been in the local beverage industry since 1915. The family once operated Bristol Borough-based Cattani’s Beverage.
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“I took everything I learned about the craft beer business,” he said. “This is craft soda.”
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