Yesterday when I was young I never imagined that one day I’d own a coffee house. Now here I am a proud owner of a small individual coffee house named after the historic building it’s located in. The Royal Bean Coffee House represents good feelings and good times. The Royal Bean is something I’ve been waiting for all along, but I never knew it. Here I sit in my coffee house by the window looking outside at the fading daylight. I see a brooding overcast evening to make coffee sound oh so good. I look out and see the gently melancholy wind blowing through the tops of the trees. It feels like home in here. It feels like family in here.
Owning a small business isn’t a pipe dream. Neither is it what it’s cracked up to be. If you’re looking to get rich, then you’re probably better off staying away from owning a small business. It’ll enrich you in other ways, though. I’ve always thought that nothing in life has meaning without the people you have to share it with. You can see a supernova of a sunset, but without people to share it with you’ll just see the end of another day. The Royal Bean is a community gathering place even if you walk into our doors alone.
We’re not just another coffee house. The Bean is an experience. If it’s not what you hoped for, then we’ll turn it into something better. We’re stuck in an old historic bread factory. We’re in a nondescript brick building with aging landscaping. When we tell people we’re located between Ben and Jerry’s and the Brick house, then they can find us. If we tell people we are across from the front gates of Meredith College, then they say which side is the front! We’re on the Hillsborough St. side. We don’t have a big sign or a massive marketing machine to bring attention to ourselves. We’re not a franchise with deep pocket. We’re just a lonely little coffee house, but we care about it like its home. When you come inside, then it can be your home for a little while. Ha! I’m here so much it literally is my home. I love it!
A small business supports your local economy and local community which is our objective at the Bean. I know you hear these words often these days. It’s not just a marketing campaign, though small businesses certainly need all the attention they can get. We just want to get the word out that we live here and care about our stores because we have built them with our love and bare hands. We support our local economy by purchasing our freshly roasted coffee only minutes from the Royal Bean. We purchase our bakery goods from Raleigh. We could order our cups and paper goods through the Internet or Sam’s, but we get what we need from a locally owned business two minutes from the Bean. Now not everything we get is from local businesses, but when the opportunity exist that’s our first choice we try to make happen. I’m not going to be silly and say we milk our own cows, but we do what we can do to have our products as fresh and delicious as possible. We serve happiness here. Thank you. …and please ignore my bad grammar. 
With love,
The tall skinny guy in the corner
