25 Years of Summit

 

Summit has learned, through the recession starting in 2008 and Covid starting in 2020, never to count the next anniversary before September arrives. For small businesses, homegrown and self-funded, tomorrow is never a given. So please humor us while we pause, for a moment and for a month, to celebrate.

 

It’s the gift of a lifetime to have spent so much of our lifetime as part of the Summit community. And this community exists not just because we opened a cafe and have served coffee for 25 years. The Summit community exists because of all of you reading this caption, who’ve come through our doors in Davidson and Asheville, Charlotte and Roswell. Those of you who’ve allowed us to lean in, allowed us to try new things and mess up over and over again, and those of you who still showed up for us the next day anyway. Running a business is beautiful and rewarding and hard as heck. It’s messy; it has brought us to tears (not the good ones, like we’re wiping away now, but those oh-my-goodness I am freaking out ones). We’ve had panic attacks and arguments, we’ve had hugs and parties.

 

What we feel more than anything after 25 years is gratitude. To our families for supporting this wild adventure, to our staffs current and past for so much good energy and hard work. And to you, for buying coffee and showing up and making it possible for us to be here in September 2023. While Summit is ours, Summit is yours.

 

Here’s hoping we’re fortunate enough to keep doing this thing for many, many more coffees to come.

 

Check out Brian’s full article here.