On a recent weekend at the beginning of the month, tables steadily filled at a new Overland Park coffee shop. Customers caught up on studying, or with one another, while sipping Yemeni coffee — many trying it for the first time.
Omar Abdelmoity, owner of Mocha Point Yemeni Coffee, remembers when he was still just a customer there.
While attending Washington University in St. Louis, he spent many afternoons (that turned into late evenings) studying at the St. Charles, Missouri-based coffee shop. For him, he said, it was about more than the coffee…