Adults with particular wants shine at Roswell espresso store
With a mission to assist prospects rise and workers shine, Roswell’s RISE espresso and tea serves up cold and hot drinks, smoothies, and gluten-free baked items.
ROSWELL, Ga. – With the most important smile you have ever seen and boundless power as she rings up prospects, it is instantly clear that Alisha Woodall has discovered her calling.
Woodall is one in all 15 adults with particular wants employed at Roswell’s RISE espresso & tea. The enterprise was based again in 2020 by Nicole DeWard, who was impressed by her personal daughter’s expertise working at an analogous college espresso store.
“My daughter Bekah was going by means of the espresso store — by means of center college and highschool — and I assumed, ‘The place may she do that in actual life? And what’s she going to do when she’s accomplished with college?,” says DeWard.
Three years later, RISE is the reply. With a mission to assist prospects rise and workers shine, the store serves up cold and hot drinks, smoothies, and gluten-free baked items.
“It’s not only a espresso store, it’s a group,” says Erica Wooden, the advertising and marketing and occasions coordinator. “You come right here, you are feeling liked, you are feeling welcomed.”
Good Day Atlanta leaned that firsthand, stopping by and visiting with “baRISEta” (as they’re appropriately referred to as) Parker Haynes.
“I do numerous stuff. I make espresso, I bake meals, and I do issues like clear,” says Haynes.
When requested what he enjoys most about working on the store, Haynes says, “Attending to know the shoppers.”
For DeWard, the RISE enterprise mannequin is straightforward: waken the thoughts with nice espresso… and increase it with nice service.
“It’s okay typically that issues are slower. It’s okay that issues could also be somewhat totally different,” says DeWard. “I believe that there’s received to be extra locations like RISE, the place people who have particular wants can really really feel secure, and so they can shine their huge, lovely mild on the planet.”
RISE espresso & tea is positioned at 4651 Sandy Plains Street, Unit 116, Roswell, and common hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays by means of Fridays and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. The espresso store is a nonprofit, and donations to the group could also be made right here.