“Some people may say we’re crazy,” says Sippy Cafe manager Serena Shao, one week into the new coffee shop’s opening. But for her and owner Judy Zhu, college roommates who graduated in 2020, opening a business just made the most sense while spending their early twenties in a pandemic.
“We wanted to explore this idea for years,” Shao said. She and Zhu had both worked at Tim Horton’s when attending college upstate, and now they’re…
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