It’s exactly 12:01AM on Sunday morning. I can’t go to sleep right now, because my life (and the entire world) has just been turned upside down over the past few days. As a small business owner, these days have to be the hardest and most challenging time I have faced. Until now, I have always been able to figure out a way to navigate around even the most difficult problems. It didn’t matter what might go wrong, I had the ability to work it out.

But this time...

I can’t believe the year is almost over! I hope everyone is wrapping up 2019 with a lot of success and happiness. This year went by especially fast for me. Just like that, we’re about to welcome in the year 2020!

I thought last year was a challenge for me in terms of building two new locations at the same time, but this year even surpassed that! Construction on our sixth location off of Park Road is currently 99% complete. Construction on our first internati...

Wow! Time flies by! I can’t believe it has been six years since we opened up our first location in Cornelius. I could’ve never imagined that we would still here six years later. It hasn’t always been easy. What started as just a small coffee shop in a small town has now turned into the biggest and fastest-growing local coffee shop from Lake Norman to Charlotte! Last year, we opened up two stores, and I thought that was the hardest year of my life, between m...

It’s been a week since getting back from attending Best Cup Colombia and I’ve had so many incredible experiences to reflect on.  It was a wonderful opportunity for me and I am so grateful to the people I met during this trip and to my boss Tony Vo for sending me to represent Waterbean.  This is an event hosted by BanExport, a company located in Bogotá, Colombia and organized by Cafe Imports from Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year, over 1,300 local producers...

It has been exactly 7 years since I visited my birth place. My goal was to always travel back home at least once a year to visit my parent and siblings. However, the last 7 years of running a startup business did not allow such. I pour my heart and soul into this company and in return I traded away my precious time with the people I care most. 

My parent does not know that I’m on my way and this will be the first time they get to see our youngest daughter Ad...

My grandmother has always been one of the most important people in my life. As I sit here in my office, after just coming back from visiting her in Utah, I realized it’s time for another blog post since I haven’t posted one in awhile.

Everything we do in life is shaped by the people with whom we surround ourselves. It’s extremely hard seeing that someone who raised me since I was little can no longer do the basic things that we all take for granted everyday....

When it comes to food, our founders, Tony and Annie, have a lot of experience. Growing up in a family that owned multiple restaurants and travelled around the world tasting different types of food from many cultures, our founders know what the consumer wants when it comes to food. Every food item that we decided to put on our menu has been a purposeful choice. Nothing is there just for the sake of it.

We created the Sizzlewiches, which are currently availabl...

A couple years ago a friend of mine was telling me about this awesome new coffee shop called Waterbean. She told me the coffee was so good and the products they use are a lot healthier for you than other coffee shops. A group of us decided to go there after a workout one morning and from that moment on I was hooked. I've gone there every morning for the last couple years to get my coffee (a large salted caramel latte-iced in the summer and hot when its cold...

When our founder Tony decided that we would begin roasting our own coffee, he spent months researching which particular coffee roaster would be able to deliver exceptional quality to our customers. Just like all of the equipment in our store, we decided on each of them without a budget in mind. We knew that this will be the equipment that deliver our customers their coffee everyday, so we wanted nothing but the best. We're very proud of everything we have b...

Since this is the first blog post of our new website, as well as the launch of our new roaster, I would like to take this time to say a few words of gratitude to our wonderful customers. Please allow me to get a little personal and to share a little bit about myself because I consider everyone that steps foot into our business a friend, rather than a customer.

When I started Waterbean Coffee a little over three years ago, I did not expect much, but I always...