After two years of serving up cappuccinos, frappuccinos, and good old-fashioned black coffee, Bill and Davilynn Furlow are looking to sell the Natchez Coffee Company.

The Furlows opened the Franklin Street café when they moved to Natchez from California. They moved to Natchez because they loved it, Bill Furlow said. The coffee shop was what they decided to do when they got here.

Now, the couple wants to spend more time enjoying the city they love, he said.

“We want to have more flexibility,” Furlow said. “We’d like to be able to do more things together. We moved to a place with a slower pace of life, but our lives haven’t slowed down. Now that we’re here, we want to enjoy it.”

Furlow said he and Davilynn would miss the coffee shop, seeing familiar, smiling faces every day.

“We had a ball running the coffee shop,” Furlow said. “We still do. We’re always happy when we’re in the shop.”

Furlow said he wanted to see it continue as a coffee shop because there was a need for a place like that in downtown Natchez. It serves as a “third place,” he said — not home, not at a bar, but at a different type of gathering place.

“We believe strongly in the future of it as a coffee shop,” Furlow said. “If we don’t find a proper buyer, we won’t sell it. I think it will always be the coffee shop.”

With new hotels and casinos on the horizon, Furlow said he saw an even brighter future for the coffee company.

“And there are more people living downtown all the time,” Furlow said. “Things are happening that wouldn’t have happened a year ago.”

The couple is looking for just the right buyer, he said. Since they rent the space, they’ll just be selling the business, not the building, he said.

“We’ve created this, now it’s time for someone else to take it to the next level,” Furlow said. “We’ve had some interest, but it’s too early to say whether they’re truly interested.”

In the meantime, the couple will continue to serve sandwiches, ice cream and, of course, coffee, to loyal customers who just want a place to get away from it all.