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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — A café in Boston is offering a little more than just coffee to their customers.
Since opening this past July, Wishing Cup on Court Street has kept a unique tradition to go along with ordering food and drinks.
For every order a customer places, they can write out a wish they want to be granted on a card. They then drop it in a cup with all the other collected wishes.
Every month, the owner of the store picks a wish and posts it on social media, spreading the word in order to find people who can help them make the wish come true.
Anna, one of the baristas at the shop, explained the owner’s philosophy of being more than just coffee but also a place to help those in the community.
“He really wanted to create a café that was really purpose-based,” she said.
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While some are more personal, Anna explained that most of the wishes they end up receiving are community-based, such as donating food and supplies to an animal shelter, delivering coffee to the families of children with cancer, and donating a winter coat to a grad student who can’t afford one.
“One of my favorite wishes was actually granted last month,” Anna said. “It was to help someone who just moved here to the states to be able to get lessons in English so that they can adapt a lot easier.”
She said this one hit close to home as a child of immigrants who would have loved the opportunity to have lessons like this.
More information regarding the Wishing Cup can be found here.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Emma Friedman (@EmmaFriedmanWBZ) reports.