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,
Vermont tourists and locals alike are knocking down the door for a taste of Three Branches Cafe & Bakery.
The charming coffee shop is set in a historic building in Island Pond, Vermont, and owned by Texas Coffee School Coffeepreneurs® Erin Miceika and Pierre Gervais. The area welcomes tourists almost year round, with snowmobiling in the winter, leaf peeping in the fall and lake activities in the summer. Visitors come from neighboring states like Massachusetts,
Jumping into a brick-and-mortar coffee shop business can feel like diving headfirst into a swimming pool. Even though that leap can come with incredible reward and satisfaction, it also takes an investment of time and money. That leads to some aspiring coffee business owners to ask: Can you ease into a coffee business on the side, instead?
When our Texas Coffee School team gets an influx of folks asking the same question,