Open for Business: Bedda Matri

Bedda Matri
The owners of a Springfield catering business launched a new venture with the April 1 opening of a food truck, Bedda Matri. Torino, Italy, native Alessandro De Luca co-owns the mobile eatery with business partner Jennifer Morris. The two also are co-owners of Italian Kitchen LLC, which launched in 2020 as a mobile catering company before opening a brick-and-mortar spot last year in downtown Springfield. Bedda Matri is Italian for “beautiful mother,” but De Luca said the phrase is more a common Italian expression of surprise. He said startup costs were around $50,000, noting the three-employee food truck’s menu centers around street food commonly found in Sicily, where his family currently lives. Entree options include arancini, a deep-fried, breadcrumb-coated rice ball with various fillings, and cipollina, which has sauteed onions, tomato sauce, mozzarella and ham in a puff pastry. De Luca said he wanted to keep prices affordable, noting all items range $5-$6.
Phone: 417-419-8084
Web: Facebook.com/BeddaMatriSGF

X-Golf Springfield
Indoor golfing venue franchise X-Golf Springfield swung into the Queen City on March 18 at 225 E. Primrose St., near the intersection with Campbell Avenue. Carl Boyer said he is a franchisee of the local venue with longtime friend James Grier and business partner Jason Digirolamo. Boyer said startup costs were roughly $330,000, which included a $30,000 franchise fee, adding the franchisees handled interior and exterior demolition, as well as painting the 6,200-square-foot building. The facility has seven golf simulator bays with 16-foot screens. Bay rentals are $40 per hour for up to six people from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and $50 after 4 p.m., while prices are $60 per hour Friday through Sunday. Players can bring their own golf clubs or rent them from X-Golf, which also has a full bar and food menu, including burgers, pizza and nachos. Territory for the franchisees is a 20-mile radius of Springfield, Boyer said, noting the trio plans to open a second location within the next three years.
Phone: 417-202-2400
Web: PlayXGolf.com/locations/springfield

CoxHealth Branson Hills
An April 19 ribbon-cutting event marked the launch for CoxHealth Branson Hills, a 30,000-square-foot clinic at 1601 Branson Hills Parkway. CoxHealth spokesperson Kevin Agee said the 60-employee clinic, just west of the Branson RecPlex, is led by manager Melissa Bell and opened to patients on April 22. Agee declined to disclose startup costs for the project in which KCI Construction Co. served as general contractor and H Design Group LLC was architect. The facility, which has an X-ray room, laboratory services and more than 50 exam rooms, is designed to house over a dozen providers in urgent care, primary care, occupational medicine, internal medicine, diabetes and endocrinology. Services at two facilities on Highway 248 in Branson are consolidating into the new clinic, which will add urgent care this summer. Agee said the CoxHealth Family Medicine Highway 248 building will be used by its cardiovascular team to allow for growth. CoxHealth Center Branson at 890 Highway 248 will be utilized for a future undisclosed CoxHealth project.
Phone: 417-348-8964
Web: CoxHealth.com