FIRST ON KHQ: Trendy Coffee Flights Help New Spokane Business Owner Succeed Top Story

SPOKANE, WASH – A Spokane café is part of a trend talk, coffee flights.

A few weeks ago, a member of the community posted a picture on the Spokane Food Facebook group looking for coffee flights.

Spokane chimed on and the excitement for Tom Sawyer Coffee’s owner, Amanda Lashaw, went through the roof. Since the photo was published, her business has grown by 10%.

Lashaw bought the café back in January. Her goal with the business was to help the community start over after COVID.

“We have a great team and we worked together, sat down, because of the pandemic, a lot of people were unable to socialize and be together,” Lashaw said. If you come in here and see people sitting and socializing, as if nothing had happened before. “

Lashaw and her family own a farm and the local merchants also roast all of their beans.

She said when the Facebook post was created to look for the trending coffee drinks, they went from zero to hero almost overnight.

She says that as a new business owner, she appreciates the support the city of Spokane has given her.