Danni Cafe: an approachable Community Cafe

This is a cafe with an area of only 16 square meters and is known as the smallest in the lake pond.

There is only a floor-to-ceiling window, a small bar and a chair, and there is no place for people to stay and chat in a boutique coffee shop at all. The store only sells three kinds of coffee: Italian concentrated coffee, American coffee and latte. In addition, it also offers retail coffee beans.

The name of this store is

Danni Cafe .

Walk into this.

A small space of 16 square meters

He was fascinated by the strong aroma of coffee.

There is a coffee machine and bean grinder in the bar, there are no extra waiters, only a girl with a smile on her face is standing inside, chatting with you while making you a cup of coffee. Press and pull, in one fell swoop, just like an excellent barista.

There is a coffee machine and a bean grinder in the bar, and there are no extra waiters, only an aunt with a smile on her face from 3pm to 6pm every day, which is the busiest time in the shop. The only place where guests can sit is a high chair in the store, but this does not stop people from coming to the store to spend money.

The advantage of the low price is the broadening of the customer base, which is more diversified than the surrounding cafes. Residents of the residential area upstairs, students from nearby schools, housewives who have just returned from shopping, and foreign friends who live across the street are all regular customers in the store. Mother stood inside, chatting with you while making you a cup of coffee. Press and pull, in one fell swoop, just like an excellent barista.

In winter, shopkeeper Danni gets up at 6 o'clock every day to go to the store to give commuters waiting for the bus a cup of hot coffee and start a day's "work trip". In the evening, she prepares a fresh Fresh Juice to quench the thirst of the students who come home from school. No matter how busy she is, Danni insists on opening the store, not only for those guests who are waiting for her on time, but also because she has adopted many stray cats and built cat houses for them in the hallway in front of the store. Regular customers are also used to bringing some cat food or putting some change in a piggy bank when they go for coffee. This is everyone's "stray cat" fund. If you are also interested, you might as well join us and drink coffee to tease the cat. It is also an approachable and petty bourgeois thing.

"although the space is small, I think my store has broken through everyone's conventional understanding of coffee, and I have made the price extremely low. In addition, our quality, not to mention perfect, is by no means worse than that of most boutique coffee shops around us." Talking about his small shop, the shopkeeper Danni is in high spirits.

Danni's husband is a German foreign businessman who works in Wujin. They backpack together when they fall in love. Before the Spring Festival last year, Danni returned to Changzhou and took down this small place.

"the only criterion for location is to reduce the cost, small enough and cheap enough, so that I can make coffee at an acceptable price." According to Danni, it has always been his dream to open a pure coffee shop. And the coffee shop in her mind should be based on the coffee itself. "after going abroad for a long time, I think the cafe should eventually serve the community, not so high-end, and the price is not so expensive. I want to change people's view of coffee and hope that it will be integrated into daily life."

So, every day before or after work, many people want to go downstairs to the community to ask the boss to make a cup of warm coffee and chat with the neighbors they know, so they follow the store opened by Danni.

Danni Cafe

Address: West gate of Xincheng residence, Huayuan street