{"id":6990,"date":"2019-02-07T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:20:23","slug":"latte-love-coffee-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/latte-love-coffee-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Latte Love Coffee House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Phouaykoumpha learned the essence of hard work, struggle, perseverance and work ethics at an early age. His parents sacrificed a good living in Laos to give him and his sister a shot at the American Dream when Tony was just 7 years old. He has always admired his parents\u2019 hard work, zeal, integrity and high work ethics. He picked up his first job at a restaurant at the age of 14 to help his parents with bills and never looked back. He worked for the same restaurant for 23 years in varying capacities and learned a lot about restaurant business- the dos, the don\u2019ts and everything in between!<\/p>\n

After my many years of service and realizing he wasn\u2019t going anywhere with the company, the quintessential entrepreneurial bug bit him. Alas, he could be his own boss. Well, he needed to be his own boss. He always had a talent for creating unique dishes with a flare and his fianc\u00e9 Elizabeth always wanted to own a coffee shop. And thus their labor of love- Latte Love Coffee House was born on December 2018. It\u2019s a modern rustic Caf\u00e9 with \u200ban artistic ambience. Their Slogan is- \u201cSometimes the perfect day starts with a great cup of coffee and we’re here to help. Let\u2019s fight the daily grind together, one cup at a time…. or two.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>Latte Love Coffee House serves 100% organic and above Fair Trade coffee with a food menu. Their coffee comes from all over the world and thus helping farmers grow a sustainable business. The beans are locally roasted- proudly caffeinating Rhode Islanders.<\/p>\n

In many ways the road to Latte Love Coffee House reflects Tony and his family\u2019s personal story- challenging but rewarding. Tony understood the need for professional business planning support early on. That\u2019s when he connected with RISBDC. Amit Basnet of RISBDC has been working with Tony from the early market research & due diligence to meticulous executing current business plan. Tony opines, \u201cAmit was amazing at helping us search for answers every step of the way.  Without his knowledge, I don\u2019t think our Caf\u00e9 would have been possible. He has invested as much time as Elizabeth and I have to get the caf\u00e9 going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Latte Love Coffee House
\n<\/strong>11 Comstock Parkway
\nCranston, Rhode Island 02921
\n(401) 944-5683
\nwww.latteloveri.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Phouaykoumpha learned the essence of hard work, struggle, perseverance and work ethics at an early age. His parents sacrificed a good living in Laos to give him and his sister a shot at the American Dream when Tony was just 7 years old. He has always admired his parents\u2019 hard work, zeal, integrity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":6993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/risbdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}