The Bean Bro are continuing to grow their business throughout the Wiregrass

The Bean Bro is a creative coffee company

The Bean Bro coffee shop is starting a new scholarship program to help further the careers of its employees.

About 90% of The Bean Bro’s employees are between the ages of 16 and 20, and as co-owner, Damen Dennis says the company strives to mentor all its employees and prepare them for the future.

“We always want to have that impact on them, and there’s not really a better way than to help them get to their next step,” Dennis said. “Then doing this scholarship program gives them something to strive for, and we made this promise when we had one store at the beginning of this company, and we’re going to honor it when we have 30 of them in the near future.”

Their journey began two years ago opening a drive-thru in Daleville, Alabama. Next came Ozark and now they are expanding throughout the entire Wiregrass area.

“I think being a drive-thru business has really helped with that initially but our roots and where we come from and what we do and the way we are the faces that you see and the way you’ve greeted the pandemic put a lot of stress on people, not just us but pulling up to one of our shops every morning and getting that smile really I feel like impacts people’s day,” said Dennis.

Steering away from their typical drive-thru, The Bean Bro took their journey to the next level.

“We wanted a walk-in storefront a flagship store more or less to sell merchandise to give people a chance on 231 to stop stretch their legs and get a coffee we have our sasquatch on the side of the building a lot of kids really like that they can stop take pictures to grab donuts and a drink and head back on their way it was just the right spot in the right time.”

And they are not stopping there.

“Going forward we plan to build at least seven the year 2022 is looking to be an incredible year for us we’re working out some bugs in the company to make those numbers happen but securing the warehouse really helped with that we have a new roasting facility being put together right now and we’re really building a system to supply all of our stores,” said Dennis.

The Bean Bros has a third shop planned for Dothan, along with a location in Enterprise.

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