The business, Warner said, offers a wide variety of hot and cold espresso drinks, coffee, frappuccinos, real fruit smoothies, all-natural energy drinks, Italian sodas and hot chocolate. The financial goal we hoped to hit one day, by the third day we had already hit that." "We've been completely blown away at the community response and support," she said. Business was slow initially, but when the fair closed and the drive-through opened, Warner said the customers turned out. It was walkup service only those first few days due to fair parking.
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Manic Espresso, located just inside the free parking area on the West Virginia State Fairgrounds, served its first orders the week of the fair. "The coffee shop was something I wanted to do since I first moved here," she said, explaining she initially shied away from it because of the startup cost.īy the summer of 2021, however, she said she was ready to jump in. Though Warner had achieved her dream of becoming a business owner twice over with the school and tanning salon, she said the end game was always coffee. "The community really rallied around us and everything has turned out fine," she said. Warner said the business, which had only been open a month when early Covid-19 restrictions forced it to shut down for nearly two months, has also become successful. In addition to spray tanning services, Soleil offers a red light therapy bed, which Warner said helps with chronic pain and other conditions.
"The equipment was pretty dated and the building wasn't what I wanted so I decided to invest a little more and do everything my own way," she said. Warner said she briefly considered purchasing a local tanning business that had recently come up for sale, but determined starting from scratch was the best way to go. "But I had mentioned to a friend of mine that I wished we had a nice tanning place. "It wasn't something that was ever on my radar," she said of the tanning business. The extra time, she said, is what allowed her to take on a new, unexpected challenge in February 2020, when she opened Soleil Glamour Bar in Lewisburg. Though she said the school is busy, in recent years she has taken a step back allowing her employees to take the lead, while she handles the business end of things. "The goal is to come alongside local schools and help with their programs," Warner said of the Greater Greenbrier Music Education and Appreciation Foundation, which was established in 2019. "(We teach) almost anything you can imagine."īased on the success of the school, Warner said she felt inspired to establish a 501(c)3 designed to help provide music lessons to underprivileged youth. "We have kids who come from (as far as) a couple hours away for lessons," she said, explaining instructors offer both private and group lessons in piano, guitar, violin, fiddle, bass drums, ukulele, accordion and voice.
The popularity and demand for lessons prompted Warner to open Warner Music School in downtown Lewisburg in April 2017.
"I started teaching piano out of my home and it kind of blew up," she said. The move wasn't intended to be permanent, Warner said, but she quickly found success in an unexpected venture. That's when she took a step away and journeyed on what she referred to as a "six-month adventure" to Lewisburg. "But everything fell apart when coal and oil went down in Wyoming," she said. "I didn't know what I wanted to do as far as types of businesses when I was little, but I knew that's what I loved," the 41-year-old recalled.īecoming a business owner didn't happen right away, however, as she first spent several years working as a project manager, in both Seattle and Wyoming, overseeing the construction of custom homes. Though Manic Espresso is Warner's dream business, it is not her only venture.
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