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Treetop Coffee Shop owners Rachel Casstevens and Courtney Peters name are ardent for coffee and assisting children.
Knoxville News Sentinel
The owners of Treetop Coffee Shop went on a highway outing opposite a South to name a destiny home of their food truck.
Texas locals Courtney Peters, 24, and Rachel Casstevens, 25, knew they wanted to conduct East and to a reduction coffee-saturated city than Austin, where they’d been living.
“It was unequivocally identical to throwing darts on a map,” Casstevens said.
The dual business majors wanted nontraditional jobs. They’d been baristas and had a food lorry experience. In Nov 2017 they dreamed adult the Treetop concept.
Asheville and Charlotte were contenders
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coffee scene.
“People are also brave in (the coffee scene) and wish to try new things,” Casstevens said. “It isn’t only a one-horse city where we get a crater of coffee and pierce on. It’s growing.”
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In short, Knoxville felt “very on a verge of something new,” she said.
While attending church during that visit, they detected Knoxville Area Foster Care and Adoption Ministries, a network for individuals, businesses and churches.
The two share a passion for assisting children in encourage care. Casstevens has encourage siblings and Peters has worked with children who have been orphaned or abused.
“Our faith is a unequivocally large partial of because we do what we do, so we unequivocally wanted God to lead those partnerships,” Peters said.
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They’ve worked that passion into Treetop’s business model. They’ll partner with a new nonprofit each month, donating supports or equipment needed. In March, they’re supporting Harmony Family Center by donating 10 percent of deduction to account their sand run.
“We feel like coffee is a unequivocally good product for … portion people,” Peters said. “Coffee is all about bringing people together, community, comfort. You feel during home.”
Treetop Coffee’s espresso drinks
The truck, which opened Saturday, serves espresso-based drinks, cappuccinos, lattes and season coffee. Pretty most anything we could sequence during a normal coffee shop, Peters said.
They offer tea from Jackson Avenue Tea, coffee from Vienna Coffee Co. and a season coffee rotates each month; in March, it’s Three Bears Coffee Company‘s Bali, a middle roast.
“In college, we was always during coffee shops. It was where we felt comfortable, like we could study, and chill and relax, so we wish that to be what we give people,” Peters said.
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Central Filling Station food lorry park on Sundays and will be outward a Tennessee Theatre on Wednesdays and Fridays.
“I consider there’s only something about operative with your hands and carrying to speak to people, removing to know people in a unequivocally discerning volume of time, that we consider is interesting,” Casstevens said.