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Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
A coffee shop in downtown Norman will soon be employee-owned as its staff prepare to buy the business from the current owner.
Over the summer, the staff at Gray Owl Coffee on Gray Street began talks to purchase the shop from owner Jenny Vigil after she expressed interest in selling it earlier in the year.
Emily Soreghan, one of six employees at the shop, said Vigil wanted to wait to sell the shop in order to guide the business through the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
âIt turned out to be a beautiful thing,â Soreghan said. âEven though the pandemic has made things difficult business wise, it opened the door because all of the employees have been here and it allowed us to organize without the noise of normal life and meet once a week and focus on how employee ownership would look and how feasible it was.â