It’s been a severe dual months for everybody in a food and libation industry. But it’s been quite eventful for Wendy Warren and Jerry Wang.
Warren and Wang have spent a final 8 weeks navigating a re-branding and opening of their new Paper Moon Coffee Co. shops in Santa Clara County. Paper Moon is famous for classical specialty coffee drinks, dessert coffee drinks and baked products from internal purveyors, like Morgan Hill’s Roxanne’s Biscotti and San Jose’s Sweet Dragon Baking Co.
Warren ran Chromatic Coffee in Santa Clara for 9 years before transitioning it to a Paper Moon judgment in early March, weeks before COVID-19 hit. Her business is down 60 percent and she continues to onslaught with a sourcing of supplies, including filters and coffee bags, though she is open for takeout. She also has large plans: Warren has usually launched her nonprofit, Coffee Housing, that aims to yield affordable housing to Bay Area baristas.
Wang, who owns Celsius Ice Cream in Milpitas, that he has kept open during a pandemic, skeleton to re-open a Chromatic in downtown San Jose as Paper Moon Coffee Co. for take-out and smoothness during a finish of May.
He picked adult a keys to his new emporium a day before shelter-in-place started.
“The pestilence is really formulating a lot of disharmony in terms of opening my business and difficulty with investors,” Wang says. “They corroborated out a day after we picked adult a keys. But I’ve attempted my best to figure out how to do this. Wang says he used a county’s drop-in use to get his assent paperwork incited around in 4 weeks.
He’ll offer a same drinks and baked products as Warren, along with boba tea (also accessible by growler) and smoothness around Kiwibot. Currently he’s renovating a inside of a cafe, though expostulate by a 17 N. Second Street emporium and you’ll see a windows lonesome in a neon summary of hope: “Tough times, Tougher people,” a portrayal by San Jose local artist J. Duh.
“A lot of people travel by and acknowledgement about it,” says Wang, who skeleton to supplement a plant-based food menu by mid-summer. You’ll even be means to sequence your splash around texting.
Paper Moon Coffee Co. sources a coffee beans from a few farms of interest, including a usually women-owned indent in a Amaro Mountains of Ethiopia (this one’s organic and single-origin), and a direct-trade, four-generation, family-owned Nicaraguan plantation that helps send girls of a surrounding area to vocational schools to build career skills.
Despite their hardships, they have helped minister some-more than $5,000 in coffee and boba tea splash donations to medical workers, initial responders and other essential workers.
Paper Moon Coffee Co. in downtown San Jose is scheduled to open during a finish of May. Hours to start will be 8 to 4 p.m. weekdays. Paper Moon Santa Clara is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during 5237 Stevens Creek Boulevard.