Black BRAND's Coffee Connect featuring Fresh Cup Coffee and Tea Company's Jarrod Freeman

Black Wall Street Today with Blair Durham

Black BRAND's Coffee Connect featuring Fresh Cup Coffee and Tea Company's Jarrod Freeman. https://www.freshcup2u.com. Jarod and Thanayi Foreman have over 20 years in the coffee and marketing industries. Jarod lost his job in the Coffee Refreshment industry due to the Covid19 Pandemic in 2020. Jarod Foreman collected unemployment for about two months, but then he realized he had a thirst for a home-based business. Foreman had worked for coffee service companies in Hampton Roads for more than a decade, delivering coffee and servicing machines at workplaces. Then COVID-19 pulled the plug. “I received a phone call from one of our largest customers that generally houses about 3,000 coffee drinkers at one facility,” Foreman recalled. “He was calling to let me know that they were down to 10 people in the building.” He got furloughed and applied for unemployment. 10 On Your Side referred him to the office of State Senator Bill DeSteph (R-Va. Beach), who’s helped thousands with their claims. “They immediately reached out to me and made some phone calls and reached out to (Virginia Employment Commission),” Foreman said in a Monday morning interview. He collected unemployment for about two months. Then he had a conversation with a friend who was now working from home. “Their company was giving them an office allowance, and that included coffee.” An opportunity was brewing — and he began to see the new normal as a mug half full instead of half empty. Foreman then asked the person “If I was to offer you coffee directly to your home would you be willing to work with me? And they said absolutely.” After doing some market research and a family meeting he and his wife decided to start their own business in July 2020. Jarod's love of premium quality coffee along with Thanayi's fondness of light and fruity teas have inspired the selections offered by Fresh Cup Coffee & Tea Company. Foreman and his wife began Fresh Cup 2 U. He gets coffees and teas from distributors in Portsmouth, Chicago, and California. He poured his savings into the August launch and now customers are getting refills, via subscription programs.

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