Coffee Talk

Photo c/o Bitty & Beau’s

Wilmington-based Bitty & Beau’s Coffee expanded its brand with a weekly talk show on YouTube, aptly named The Bitty & Beau’s Coffee Show, that launched at the end of March and quickly surpassed 1,000 subscribers.

On the show, founders AMY and BEN WRIGHT, accompanied by their children BITTY WRIGHT, fourteen, and BEAU WRIGHT, nineteen, explain what drove them to build their coffee business and introduce the world to the people who inspired it.

Both Bitty and Beau Wright have Down syndrome. Their parents wanted to create a place where people with disabilities could find employment and guests could interact with them. The coffee shop opened its first location on the corner of Wrightsville Avenue and South Kerr Avenue in 2016. It has since expanded across the country with nineteen locations from Colorado to the Carolinas employing more than 400 people with disabilities.

Bitty and Beau’s sister, EMMA GRACE WRIGHT, has been there since the very beginning. She was a sophomore in high school when the first shop opened. Now twenty-four, she serves as the creative director of Bitty & Beau’s Coffee.

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