Combining a coffee emporium with a career in behavioral therapy is partial of a life tour for Michele Slaybaugh.
Slaybaugh and her husband, Stan, of Exeter Township, non-stop Flourish Coffee Shop in a prior plcae of Caf Bold in West Reading on Apr 8.
“We were contacted during a commencement of Jan by a people who owned a building,” Michele Slaybaugh said. “They knew we had coffee emporium experience. It was critical that they non-stop adult unequivocally quickly.”
As a owners of Exeter’s Expressing Yourself coffee emporium from 1999 to 2003, Slaybaugh was desirous by her interactions with her customers.
“People said, ‘you’re such a good listener,’” she said.
The certain use speedy Slaybaugh to go behind to school, earning a bachelor’s grade in psychology from Penn State in 2011, her master’s grade in conversing from Eastern University in 2014 and her doctorate in behavioral health, that she finished in December.
The Slaybaughs are leasing a initial building of a building during a intersection of Sixth and Penn avenues.
Although Slaybaugh had been handling her conversing practice, Flourish Behavioral Health, out of her home, she felt a business had grown to a indicate that she indispensable an bureau space.
“This space worked ideally that we could put my use in a back,” she said. “We kind of went with it. We spun a name out of what we had for my conversing practice.”
Because a let was formerly assigned by Caf Bold, Slaybaugh pronounced all a kitchen apparatus was already on site that she indispensable for a new shop.
She explained that a let indispensable to be spotless out and afterwards extended for a re-opening with seat domestic by her father and a finish refresh.
“We done it a bit some-more grand with black, gold, and ivory,” she said. “It’s elementary and classic.”
Indoor seating is accessible for 26 diners, with room for 14 congregation outside.
The Slaybaughs also enclosed a tech hire given for business to block in wiring and work from a coffee shop.
Flourish Coffee Shop focuses on espresso-based beverages, a preference of teas, and highlights custom, hand-made sodas. According to Slaybaugh, there are some-more than 25 coffee flavors available.
Slaybaugh is expanding a food menu that includes an oatmeal bar, breakfast sandwiches, bowls, and fruit and yogurt parfaits, followed by soups, sandwiches, prohibited paninis and salads.
“Plus we have tons and tons of baked goods,” she said. “We’re anticipating people adore to come and sit.”
And Flourish Coffee Shop is ancillary a village with donations to internal charities and non-profits, Slaybaugh said.
Although Slaybaugh is focused on her behavioral health clients during a week, she is still vehement to mix her dual businesses.
“I do suffer offered behind a opposite and portion people Saturdays and Sundays,” she said.
Flourish Coffee Shop
Location: 550 Penn Ave., West Reading
Phone: 215-804-8306
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Hours: Mondays by Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sundays, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.