Blake Eatherton’s The Dnvr Coffee Co. had been parked in Wash Park, but now he’s leasing space in the University of Colorado Denver’s Lawrence Street Center.
Geologist doubles down on coffee cart venture after pandemic layoff
Photos courtesy of The Dnvr Coffee Co.)
Blake Eatherton didn’t expect his side gig to become a saving grace.
The Aurora native launched a mobile coffee cart called The Dnvr Coffee Co. in April 2019, operating it himself around his day job as a geologist. A year later, the coronavirus pandemic set in.
“When I first came up with the idea I was working on oil rigs doing geosteering,” Eatherton said. “When the pandemic hit and oil crashed, I lost my job along with most other geologists in the state and I started doing this full-time,” Eatherton said.