5/15/21
An Iowa City coffee shop will soon be gone, but not forgotten, as two of its former employees plan to open a new coffee shop in its place.
Dash Coffee Roasters on the corner of Bloomington and Linn Streets will close its doors next Saturday. Owner Rebecca Weinbrenner told the
Press-Citizen she’s “downsizing” after two years in business to concentrate on Dash’s original Cedar Rapids location.
But the retail space that hosts Dash will still be serving coffee. Two former Dash Iowa City employees, Haley Kesterson and Tucker Shepard, wrote on Instagram that they will be opening Tru Coffee in the same North Linn Street location on June 1
But Haley Kesterson and Tucker Shepard, two former Dash employees, are stepping up to keep the coffee pot on. While not immediately available for comment, they posted on Instagram that Tru Coffee would open June 1. We are so thankful for the foundation that has been set and the community that has been built through (Dash Coffee). We were just two confused little baristas when we first started working for them a few years ago, so we are over the moon to be able to have this opportunity to open Tru Coffee and serve the community, the couple wrote in Tru s first Instagram post.
Iowans with pent-up frustrations from the past year will have another avenue to deal with their stress beginning Saturday, May 15, when Smash Room Iowa opens in Urbandale.
The concept is simple: Guests can vent their frustrations by turning plates, lamps, TVs, windshields, and even appliances like a washer and dryer into shattered glass and misshapen metal. Smash Room is a place people can go and kind of relieve some stress, tension, whatever s going on in their life, said owner Chad Lambert. I had some of my staff do it yesterday, and they smashed a TV, and the smiles on their faces just went ear-to-ear.