Park’s Corner Café on Surviving the First Two Winters

Jin Park is the owner of Park’s Corner Café in Toronto, ON.

How It Started

I worked in my parents’ convenience store for ten years and always wanted the corner to smell like coffee.

The Hardest Year

That first January we sold eleven drinks on a Tuesday. I counted.

What Customers Don’t Know

The soup is my mother’s recipe, and she still checks the seasoning on Mondays.

Sample story for the staging design only. Not a real business. Photo: Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/barista-holds-an-open-sign-welcoming-customers-96Za_ctYcpc).