AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) – A new coffee shop has opened on Richland Avenue in Aiken’s Eastside Village, offering coffee, pastries, a lunch menu, a lounge with books and a dedicated space for game nights.
Heather Willaby, owner of Parlour Coffee and Company, works in her day job helping others launch businesses — guiding them from sign-up through opening and into ongoing operations.
She comes from a family of restaurant owners and said she wanted to apply that experience to a business of her own.
From a landlord’s suggestion to a coffee shop
Willaby said the concept came together after a conversation with the building’s landlord…