Local Coffee Shop Recommendations

We've started another of our initiatives to help members meet offline to create and enhance business relationships.

The goal will be for inSide919 to create constructive relationships with Locally Owned Coffee Shops... all across the 919.

If you know of one (preferably one you frequent) please post below in the following format:

Name of Coffee Shop
Owners Name if known
Street Address
Town
Phone Number

Let the Coffee Shop owner know you've recommended them so we don't look like a "cold call" :)
[there is NO cost for them to participate]

They will be added to this page - feel free to share this with them.

We intend to encourage inSiders to meet Tuesday mornings (when you can) from 8:30am - 10:00 at the Coffee Shop closest to where they live or work and meet their business neighbors.

These will be informal and without structure - if you can't get there till 9:00am, that's fine, if you have to leave early that's fine as well. This is what you'd do if you lived in a small town :).

Keep in mind that you will be able to take the "conversation" back online here via; Comment Walls, Friend requests and personal internal email.

There is NO cost for them to participate - our gain is that they will want to refer us to their business customers who might benefit from membership here.

Cross-pollination marketing if you will.

They will of course need to become members of inSide919 in order to fully benefit from my plans.

Thanks!

I just launched www.LocalCoffeeBreak.com in order to have a place an inSider can direct a Coffee Shop owner to in order to learn about what I'd like to do. So... simply pass this link onto any owner you know. It is a bit rough now, but I'll add more as we grow.

Tags: coffee house, coffee shop, networking

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Conaway on November 9, 2009 at 9:55am: Does anyone know if 3Cups in Chapel Hill is locally owned? I'm not sure- but it's a wonderful spot for coffee, tea or wine.

ph 968-8993
Address 227 S. Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill 27514; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pat Howlett on November 9, 2009 at 10:04am: Hey Jennifer - if you go here, can you ask them?

For some reason we've never been able to get much assistance from Businesses in Chapel Hill and I'd love to change that.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by George Ellwanger, DC on November 9, 2009 at 10:45am: Name of Coffee Shop:
Wake Zone Espresso
Street Address:6108 Old Jenks Rd
Apex, NC 27523
919-267-4622; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by George Ellwanger, DC on November 9, 2009 at 10:48am: lets get these guys busier. See how hard we can make them work.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pat Howlett on November 9, 2009 at 3:01pm: Hey George, I went in there last week and invited Mark the owner to join in - I then called him in order to get his shop listed this week, still waiting on him. If you know him encourage him a bit :) - We're ready for him and he has a very cool shop (I'm an X surfer so like the look); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tracey Gritz on November 22, 2009 at 12:31pm: I love this place. GREAT coffee, great sitting area and a wonderful, hardworking owner named Mark.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pat Howlett on November 22, 2009 at 1:19pm: I went in and personally invited Mark to join us after you mentioned him (which he was going to that day) and after Greorge posted here I gave him a personal call - we can only do so much if an owner will not take the next step and help us help them. I even added him to the list.

However, sadly I'll be removing him next time I edit that page and will not reach out to him again.

Don't know what else I can do besides what I've done for him - we are all very busy so that can never be a reason for not taking positive action.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by George Ellwanger, DC on November 9, 2009 at 10:47am: Also:
Crema Coffee Roaster & Espresso Bar
6108 Old Jenks Rd
Apex, NC 27523
919-267-4622
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Permalink Reply by Pat Howlett on November 9, 2009 at 3:03pm: Did not know of this one - dropped in on the owner of the Crema on Highhouse - hope to have them included for next week.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Terri March on November 10, 2009 at 11:52am: I'm giving a shout out for New World Coffee House, 4112 Pleaseant Valley Road, Raleigh, NC 27612 phone: 919-786-0091 Owner: Maria Minichiello. This is a really nice facility with great coffee. It has WIFI and, although it looks tiny from the outside, it is much larger than it appears with cozy rooms where you can sit and talk. I will pass on the link to Maria.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michelle Gower on November 12, 2009 at 11:05am: Maria is on here at 919 and has hosted before, so she'll be easy to reach!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pat Howlett on November 12, 2009 at 11:08am: She was our 1st participating Coffee Break partner - we're there every Tuesday morning.

List of others; ▶ Reply to This