said right from the beginning, if you come, we’ll stay open,” Erin added. “So many of our customers are regulars, familiar faces that come by every single day.” After the success of the Annapolis Royal location, Jon and Erin opened another coffee shop in Bear River in 2016, two years later. To this day, they run both the Sissiboo Coffee Roaster wholesale side and the two Sissiboo Coffee Shops and Galleries. Jon and Erin operate their company together, each filling vital roles in the business. Jon does all the roasting. He has developed the profiles and does the research about which coffee beans they bring in. In recent years, they have invested in a larger roaster, and they can roast 25 lbs of coffee beans at a time. Jon still uses the origi- nal, smaller roaster of 5 lbs per batch for coffee sam- ples. Erin took on the HR and managerial role of their wholesale, coffee shops, and art galleries. She over- sees a lot of the behind-the-scenes action including
“We did not take a wage from the business for seven years. We just kept rolling the money back into it as much as we could,” Jon said. “We did get free coffee though,”
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