MANSFIELD — The suspicion for Dave Strausbaugh and Britni Harp’s newest try came together slowly, with mixed aspects of their lives personification a part.
The married couple’s mobile coffee shop, Frenchie Roast, reflects their common entrepreneurial spirit, passion for transport and even their adore for their dual bulldogs.
“The name is a play on words,” Harp said. “We are spooky with a dual French bulldogs, Orson and Gus. They are all to us.”
Both Strausbaugh and Harp have owned businesses in a past and suffer a challenge. The suspicion to open their possess coffee emporium began percolating dual years ago, when they took a cranky nation highway outing and met a owners of a coffee emporium in Kansas City.
“It had a coolest vibe. It was always something we suspicion we would enjoy,” Harp said.
After Strausbaugh mislaid his pursuit final May, a integrate motionless to go for it. They started practicing and study how to make opposite coffee drinks and purchased a 1983 Shasta transport trailer, that they remade into a stylish coffee emporium on wheels.
“It was in good figure for a age. We roughly felt bad gutting it, though we had a prophesy in mind,” Harp said. “We motionless on a food lorry format for a coffee emporium since we adore a suspicion of being means to set adult emporium probably wherever and whenever we greatfully though being tied down to a earthy location.
“It really comes with a possess set of obstacles though a leisure it gives is 100% value it!”
Strausbaugh and some friends remodeled a trailer tip to bottom, stripping it down to a support and adding a new floor, roof and walls.
“I always suspicion we could usually get a “coffee house” vibe from sitting in an tangible coffee shop, though a Frenchie Roast coffee trailer has shown me otherwise,” pronounced Jillian Query, one of a trailer’s initial customers. “Dave and Britni are great, accessible people and they’re always distinguished adult a review with their business as if aged friends are throwing adult with any other.”
Frenchie Roast done a entrance Apr 18 in a parking lot of Mid Ohio Hitch Trailer, portion prohibited coffee drinks, teas and nitro cold brews. The integrate pronounced a day was equal tools sparkling and haughtiness wracking.
“We satisfied we had a few kinks we indispensable to work by though it was such a fanciful day. We were impressed with adore and thankfulness for everybody that came out to support us,” Harp recalled.
The integrate had designed to open in March, though pushed a opening behind due to amicable enmity discipline and a governor’s stay during home order.
“It only didn’t feel right perplexing to open with such a black cloud unresolved over a world. So we kept putting it off,” Harp said. “We finally satisfied that people were longing activities they could go do while still being safe. So that’s when we motionless to only go for it!”
The trailer is now open many days from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It’s daily plcae can be found on a Facebook and Instagram pages.
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