The best word to describe the past month of UNC-Chapel Hill students Emily Lutgring and Allison Travis’ lives is synchronicity.
In the fall, both Lutgring, 20, and Travis, 21, said they had separate conversations with friends about starting a coffee shop. Months later, the duo stood behind the counter making lattes and business calls in matching branded “The Grounds” t-shirts and aprons while friends sat along the barstools on the other side.
It all started on April 14, when they were hanging out with friends in The Pitch, an event and entrepreneurial space on Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street…