For Drexel Business Students, A Chance To Brew Some Credentials and Experience
By Ian Bush
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- College students are famous for caffeine consumption, especially around exam time or when papers are due. Now, a new café at Drexel University really could help them make the grade.
Kelsey Goslin is a marketing and entrepreneurship major at Drexel, but she's also the boss at the new Saxbys Coffee, at 34th and Lancaster Avenue.
"I'm the manager here so I can have hands-on experience of working with a team and handling the day-to-day operations that a café really entails," she tells KYW Newsradio.
"At the highest level, this café is exclusively student run," notes Nick Bayer, CEO and founder of the Philadelphia-based coffee chain.
And he notes the credit-for-working co-op program is a first in the industry. "We feel like this generation of millennial students is so entrepreneurial and they're yearning for this opportunity," he tells KYW Newsradio.
The students will handle everything from front-of-house to budgets and backroom stuff.
"We're in the big leagues here," says Bayer. "This is meant to be a place where we can show these students can run the business."
But the real grade will come from customers looking for a coffee fix.
"I think everyone's going to come here for that caffeine boost. I know I need it in the morning," Goslin says with a chuckle.
