This Is a Bookstore & Bookbug, Kalamazoo, Mich., is making a change in the operation of its in-store cafe, Table of Contents. In a recent Instagram post, the bookseller announced "our longtime supplier, kindred community builder, and dear friends @FactoryCoffee will now become the full time operator of the bookstore's cafe space--bringing Factory Coffee's high standard of service and extraordinary care for their product into the bookstore's space previously known as Table of Contents."
The reboot, under the new name FC Bookstore Cafe, will feature "seamless improvements to its menu, buoyed efficiencies to its service, and a sincere commitment to complement and enhance all bookstore events, customer needs, and gatherings.... It is an amazing joy to welcome Factory's leaders, whom many of you know as the kind-spirited Dan Kastner with over 20 years experience in coffee and the indisputably talented and generous artist, writer, and children's book author, Emmy Kastner, to now be even closer partners in our joint missions to serve and lift Kalamazoo. Welcome, friends. Welcome to the FC Bookstore Cafe."
Factory Coffee noted on Instagram that "coffee and books have forever been a passion of our co-owners, Dan and Emmy, so to be serving our coffee surrounded by books is a dream--truly a full circle moment for us. @bookbugkzoo has been a kindred small business, intentional in their effort to reach, support, and build community in Kalamazoo. We are honored at the opportunity to complement our friends' work with Factory Coffee's commitment to service, quality, and care."