Accepting DONATIONS to support our full reopenĥ. EGIFT CARDS available for purchase in our ONLINE STOREĤ. Made-to-order drinks available for storefront pickup only at the shop through the JOE COFFEE APP on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:30 am - 2 pm PST | Follow us on Instagram to stay tuned for any further updates!ģ. Bags of our in-house coffee and merch (e.g., tote bags and mugs) available in our ONLINE STORE for storefront pickup only at the shop on Saturdays and Sundays 10:30 am - 2 pm PST | Follow us on Instagram to stay tuned for any further updates!Ģ. These are the ways we are still bringing coffee, community, and culture (at a responsible social distance of course!):ġ. We are excited to have made it one year with your support! Although we have temporarily closed our doors due to COVID-19, we haven't stopped. Not only has the incredibly talented, brilliant, diverse community around us not stopped, but they have continued to build and create businesses, support one another, and celebrate this journey we find ourselves on together. In the year since, we have been fueled by his legacy to press forward. On the eve of our opening, March 31, 2019, we along with the rest of the South LA community and the world learned about the untimely death of Nipsey Hussle. We cried, yelled, and meditated, on repeat. We had two false soft openings, ran a Kickstarter campaign, and worked full-time corporate law jobs. For example, we had to fix the plumbing under our concrete bathroom floors (three times!), we discovered water damage in our ceilings, which led to an unexpected refurbishing project, and we won't even get into navigating the various city, county, and state permitting and licensing requirements. Those obstacles, which came at every turn, are why it took us two years to officially open. To be unstoppable does not mean we were without obstacles. Owners Shanita Nicholas and Amanda-Jane Thomas. In the time between signing our lease and opening our doors, we became general contractors, regulatory experts, technologists, small business owners, and intense lovers of our community. Bridging the gap is Inglewood’s Sip & Sonder, a Black woman-owned cafe that opened in 2017, with a second Downtown outpost at the Music Center. Almost two years later, on April 1, 2019, we officially opened our coffee house doors to the public. Market Street in Inglewood, CA on May 1, 2017. In anybody’s case that’s always the distinguishing factor.”Īmanda-Jane Thomas and Shanita Nicholas, the founders of Sip & Sonder, signed a lease at 108 S. “We got turned down, we failed, had set backs, had to start over a lot of times.
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