Sameer Shah and Lauren Burns had wrapped adult 8 months’ value of renovations and perceived permits for their third Voyager Craft Coffee. All that was left to do was settle on an opening date.
And afterwards a COVID-19 predicament hit.
The integrate was means to keep their strange coffeehouse, on Stevens Creek Boulevard in Santa Clara, open for takeout and delivery. But their landlords during a San Pedro Square Market sealed a whole San Jose hall, so their second plcae had to close down temporarily.
What to do? “We offer health word to a employees, so we indispensable a source of income,” Shah said.
So Shah and Burns went forward with a opening of what they call their Voyager @ SCU shop. Java runs by a veins of this building on The Alameda not distant from Santa Clara University. For years, this was a aged Mission City Coffee Roasting Company, and afterwards it became a Starbucks.
During a health crisis, business aren’t authorised inside. But from a grouping list during a front door, they can get a look of a light, ethereal space and a nature-themed decor: live greenery in planter boxes, etched timber booths, unresolved lights with rattan shades.
Inside, a baristas and bakers have a twin mission. They’re stuffing takeout orders for walk-up business and scheming donations for health-care workers and front-line responders.
That debate was a healthy further to a business plan, Shah said. Donations to a GoFundMe page (www.gofundme.com/f/voyager-craft-coffee-helping-our-community) assistance compensate for 100 cold-brew coffees and 100 pastries daily — and keep 32 Voyager employees, including dual roasters in Palo Alto, operative during slightest partial time.
“When we told a group we were doing this — a few hundred hours, a coffee donations — it was so fortifying for them,” Shah said.
Ditto for a recipients, that embody staffs of “often overlooked” nursing homes, he said. “We’re perplexing to move a small positivity into their lives.”
To minimize doing of cups, a cold brews are delivered around 164-ounce mammillae so that initial responders can flow themselves a pick-me-up anytime during their shift. The pastries, that embody brownies, blondies and oat bars, are also accessible for walk-up purchase.
And underneath a lids of their take-out coffees, business will find Voyager’s signature latte designs — maybe a flower or a bird. Once a sheltering sequence is lifted, that design will thrive in rose-colored mugs comparison to go with a decor.
According to Burns, a soothing opening hours of 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. will sojourn in outcome by Apr 26. Starting Apr 27, hours will enhance to 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The long-term devise includes dusk hours.
Details: 2221 The Alameda, Santa Clara; www.facebook.com/voyagercraftcoffee.