New coffee hits the grind – One World takes over as Sisters” Brew owners move on

After nine years of being a fixture in both the Moscow and university communities, Sisters” Brew coffee shop will brew no more. Sisters” Brew management closed their locations in the UI Administration Building and Janssen Engineering Building at the beginning of the year, handing the reigns to One World Cafe, another Moscow staple, Jan. 19.

Sisters” Brew owner Gina Rich said the business was still doing well, but she was ready to move on to other things.

“It could be really fun, but after nine years it just wasn”t challenging anymore,” Rich said. “It was kind of the same thing every day.”

Rich said one of her daughters had a baby and wants to be a stay-at-home mom, and her other daughter wants to travel, so they made the decision to close the business and each pursue their own interests.

Rich said she approached One World because she knew Sisters” Brew had many loyal customers and she didn”t want to leave them with nothing.

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A student places their order in the Janssen Engineering Building at One World Cafe, which took over stands for Sisters” Brew.

She felt that One World, as another locally-owned coffee shop offering similar products, would be an appropriate successor.

Rich said she might do something more under the Sisters” Brew name in the future, such as online sales of bulk coffee, but for the moment, Sisters” Brew is saying goodbye.

“I would love to tell all of our customers and everything, thank you so much,” Rich said. “It was just wonderful, they were all great.”

Brandy Sullivan is the owner of the One World Cafe. She said the transition period onto campus was extremely quick – One World made the agreements, signed the paperwork and moved in during the first two weeks of the year.

It has been a challenge to get used to the campus, Sullivan said. One World Cafe, founded in 2005, is a longstanding fixture of downtown Moscow, yet Sullivan said the products and services customers on campus want can be different from what customers want at the downtown location. Sullivan said the outgoing Sisters” Brew management was very helpful in introducing them to the campus, giving them information about their customers and what they like.

“In some ways it”s starting over, which always takes a little bit of time to sort through,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan said her goal for One World”s new campus locations is to foster a connection between the university and downtown Moscow. Sullivan said she hopes that bringing a little piece of downtown to the students on campus will inspire them to explore more of what Moscow has to offer.

“The university and the rest of the Moscow community really need each other, so it”s kind of cool to be now both on campus and downtown,” Sullivan said.

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