FORT MOHAVE — There is a musty small coffee and smoothie emporium with a cold story tucked into a small dilemma of a Fort Mohave frame mall.
That shop, The Cup, is owned and operated by We Care Cancer Support Inc., as a business, and manned wholly by volunteers — 3 to be precise.
Formerly compared with Roxy’s Quilt Sew, a emporium has been operated by a nonprofit cancer support classification for some-more than a year.
In further to epicurean coffees and healthy smoothies, a emporium offers pastries, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, and wraps.
Grace Black, an area vocalist and musician, serves as a conduct proffer in assign of progressing peculiarity mixture used for food and beverages.
“As we know, We Care is a regulating force behind The Cup,” she said. “We Care is all about assisting cancer patients and survivors in any approach we can. At The Cup, it’s about assisting people hear in another way, by charity them healthy smoothies served by people who know what they’re going through.”
Throughout a COVID-19 pandemic, a emporium has remained open.
“We have stayed open as an essential business for curbside use and smoothness given mid-March,” she said. “We are regulating with a light organisation of 3 volunteers — Hattie Jones, Pauline Spiering and myself.
“I am baking daily a accumulation of pastries and cookies including sugarine free, gluten giveaway and keto-friendly, and we now underline cold decoction coffee as well,” she said. “In a midst of a chaos, we are perplexing to keep some coherence and open with a smell of fresh, belligerent coffee and honeyed pastries.”
The Cup serves fresh, belligerent coffee from Hawaii, blended coffees, lattes, macchiatos, espressos, as good as healthy and organic smoothies, breakfast sandwiches, and lunch sandwiches and wraps regulating Boar’s Head luncheon meats.
Plant-based protein can be combined to smoothies for vegan customers. All mixture are pure, with no preservatives. There also is a vast preference of teas — chai, citrus, anything people competence want.
“Now that a continue is warming up, a organic smoothies are picking adult in popularity,” Black said. “They are naturally honeyed with dejected fruit and organic whey.
“At lunch time, we offer freshly-sliced Boar’s Head beef sandwiches with choice of bread, meat, cheese and condiments,” she said.
“There’s usually us volunteers firm and dynamic to stay open,” she said. “We don’t have a payroll, so all a some-more reason we are here for clients, and we wouldn’t trust a series of people who come by and look in to see if we’re here … and we let them know, we’re here for them.
“We’ve indeed gotten a lot of new people entrance in who contend we’re a usually ones open, that is good for us,” Black said. “It’s a lot of people who wouldn’t have come here since we were a usually ones open. Then when we explain we’re a nonprofit with volunteers usually operative here, they unequivocally respond to that. It’s coffee for a cause.”
Hours are 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday by Saturday.
The Cup now is open for dine-in service, and is during 5221 S. Highway 95, Suite 5, opposite from Walmart in a selling piazza right before Hammer Road. For some-more information, call 928-788-2401.