Parlour Coffee and Company opened late last year on Richland Avenue in Aiken’s Eastside Village. It serves coffee, pastries, and lunch.
Owner Heather Willaby spends her days helping entrepreneurs start companies. She walks them through registration, opening day, and the months that follow.
The idea sparked during a chat with the building’s landlord. “We went and met with the landlord and he was like the back’s already like kind of spoken for. He’s like but I have an idea for this, like maybe a coffee shop. And I was like okay well that seems a little bit more simple than doing like a bar and restaurant, like a whole thing,” Willaby said, per WRDW…