For the Opelika Observer
Boonie Hat Coffee Company is a new coffee shop that has recently opened in downtown Opelika. The shop is located inside Market Street Paint Shop at 116 S. 8th Street.
Owner Luis Saavedra started the company after serving in the Army for six years. During his tenure in the military in Southwest Asia, he was inspired to get more into the world of coffee after an experience he had with the type of coffee he was provided with while being in conditions he considers “pretty miserable.”
“The only coffee that we had was the little freeze-dried things that come in one of those government prepackaged meals,” he said. “It was like a government Folger’s, just something that never goes bad because there’s so many preservatives. After a month of drinking this stuff, I was thinking ‘there’s got to be a better way to do this.’