When Ameira Olayan and Fadia Anani decided to open a coffee shop together, they set out to create something different. Bagelology is the brainchild of two friends who wanted to run a successful business by day and be home with their kids at night.
Before becoming coffee shop owners, Ameira was a nurse and Fadia was in education with a catering business on the side. At one point, Ameira made a social media post about her dream of opening a coffee shop,
Many of us who manage coffee shop operations are familiar with the frustrating loop that comes with working in the business rather than on the business. It’s like the movie Groundhog’s Day. After the alarm clock goes off each morning, we tackle a never-ending to-do list at the coffee shop from open to close: taking inventory, ordering ingredients, serving customers, posting on social media, planning the next week’s schedule.
Running a successful coffee shop brings intrinsic rewards—like pride in your product, satisfaction of building something from scratch, and fulfillment of a lifelong dream. But it doesn’t hurt when other people notice your success, too. After a year of steady growth, Country Charm Coffee, run by Coffeepreneur® Kevin Daugherty, was recently nominated for four awards by the local Chamber of Commerce.
Located in Anna, Texas, Country Charm was nominated as Small Business of the Year,