TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa’s latest coffee cart is probably the hottest cup of Joe on the market, and it’s also likely the largest cup of coffee on the market. However, this giant idea actually started off quite small.

The backstory:

The Big Coffee Cup Café first opened for business in June after eight months of construction.

Co-owners and couple, Amr Sharaki and Lina Al Ramadhani, first came across little pink espresso cups on Pintrest and the inspiration quickly followed.

"The initial idea was going to be an actual coffee shop," Sharaki explained. "And then, the initial idea was that we also were broke, so we realized that it was too expensive to start a business."

They downsized their original dream of a brick-and-mortar café into a mobile coffee cart, upgraded the design into a giant

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