Little Ox Coffee

Jackie Kim left franchise management and brand building in the entertainment industry to open Little Ox in the summer of 2023, naming it for her daughter, an ox in the zodiac. She and her husband met in Fullerton, where both grew up and went to high school, and three years in the company opened a second shop, in La Habra, in September 2026.

Kim designed the room herself off Korean coffee shops and traditional Chinese tea shops: light wood, greenery, polished marble counters, a steel-marbled bar and glass-paneled walls. The centerpiece is a glass study room to the right of the counter that reads like an indoor greenhouse, except the thing being grown in it is homework.