"We were back in Japan (in February), and we met Hiroshi and visited some of the people who make coffee equipment for him," Sodikoff says. "Then we went back to the hotel, and we're sitting in the lobby, looking over Tokyo. There's a cellist playing -- it's this dreamy thing -- and Hiroshi pulls out a folder and shows Jean and I a menu and a logo and says, 'What do you think?' I said, 'Of what?' And he said, 'Coffee shop in Chicago.' I didn't have another thought other than 'Of course we're going to do that.'"