The guys dream of the coffee shop becoming a “third place” for their guests – a location between home and work, where a person can spend time with friends or alone. Text: Anastasia Bogdanovskaya How did you choose the name for your project?
Alexander: 1234 kilometers is an even distance between us:
We live in different cities. Yulia is from Moscow, are 1234 kilometers between our houses, so in our logo the two geolocation icons form a heart. And the area of the establishment is 123.4 meters, but this is just a magical coincidence. In general, our whole story is about love, and the coffee shop is too. Have any of you ever been in the food service business before?
I have never been involv in this kind of business before:
I am a lawyer by profession, and I still do this in parallel with the coffee shop. Alexander: I am an engineer, I have my own companies relat to engineering surveys. I also serv in the Arkhangelsk Youth Theater for a long time and I am a theater artist by cash app database ucation, and cooking is my hobby. In my free time, instead of vacations, I studi a lot, went on internships in different restaurants and work for famous chefs for free.
Then in the fall of 2021, some guys
I know, knowing about my passion for cooking and coffee, offer to open a coffee shop in a new food mall. Then I swore off: I would never set foot in unleash your creativity with free the food service industry, because it was definitely not my thing, but a month later I found out that a 100-square-meter space was being rent out above my company’s office.
At that moment I came to
Yulia with another idea. I told her, let’s open a small coffee shop for fun: no food, no frills just black coffee, filter, and espresso to go. The area would be a usa data maximum of 30 meters just a corner at the entrance! She agre to this adventure, and here we are.