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Having dreamt about opening a coffee shop for the past 10 years, Joelle Sakr put thought into each decision. Sakr said she designed Divvy, decorated with a pink flower wall and framed maps, to have a European influence and emphasis on travel. “I was trying to bring something new that people would stop and say, ‘This is a little different.’” “Whatever coffee shop you walk to, especially around Pittsburgh, for me, they all look sorta alike,” Joelle Sakr said. Sitting in a fuchsia chair inside Divvy Coffee & Buns, which she opened with her brother seven weeks earlier, Joelle Sakr said she wanted to create an alternative to the commercial coffee shops typically found in the City. “I’m like, ‘I cannot wait for the right time, there’s no right moment. “I saw that everything was shattered in a fraction of a second and how people lost their lives and their houses, their businesses, everything,” Joelle Sakr said. When she returned to Pittsburgh in September, she had a decision to make. Joelle Sakr packed up her belongings in Cranberry Township, located about 30 minutes north of Oakland, and flew to Lebanon to visit her family.

DIVVY COFFEE AND BUNS FREE

She and her brother, Elie, spent their free time during the COVID-19 pandemic honing their idea to open a coffee shop, so Joelle Sakr decided to call about the vacant storefront.īut then the blast came - killing 200 people, wounding 6,000 and, in the process, destroying her sister’s house. 4, 2020, explosion, when 2,750 tons of abandoned ammonium nitrate exploded in the city’s port, Sakr walked down Forbes Avenue with her family and noticed a “for lease” sign in the window of the former Bruegger’s Bagels store. Joelle Sakr knew it was time to open a coffee shop when a sign came - a big explosion in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.

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