Mystic Coffee Lounge celebrates 7 years  in business - video Dailymotion

Mystic Coffee Lounge in High Street, Cosham, is celebrating their seventh year in business.

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00:00Hi, my name's Kate May. Kate, so tell us a little bit about where we are and what we're celebrating.

00:05So we are seven years in at the Mr Coffee Lounge in Cosham High Street and we're celebrating with

00:12offering support around the mental health and we've set up a GoFundMe page for that.

00:18Brilliant, so tell me how the last seven years have been and what the reaction's like from

00:22like, you know, passing trade. So it's been changeable, I would say, in the last seven

00:28years, we have gone through some changes, but each change has brought something better

00:32along with it. The passing trade is great, we get a lot of regulars now, we get a lot of

00:38people wanting to come in to just chill out if they just want a quiet, relax and sort of

00:43a reset. We've got Wi-Fi, so people come in and use the Wi-Fi to be able to do their business

00:48things, we have meetings in. So we get a mixture of different people, lots of people meet their

00:52friends in here for coffee and cake and obviously we've got the crystals, so we also sell a lot

00:57on tarot cards, crystals and all the new age stock as well.

01:01Tell me how it's sort of helped people who, you know, has been struggling with their mental

01:08health.

01:09So a lot of people come in and offload to us because it's a small coffee shop, we get to

01:15know our customers and they offload with whatever's going on in their lives and a lot of it's quite

01:20traumatic and we've had customers saying this has been their safe space, this has really helped

01:24them. We have had customers come in off the street crying because they've just had some

01:29trauma or some bad news and they just feel drawn to come in. They're not sure why they've

01:33come in, they just feel drawn. So we sit them down, we give them a cup of tea and we have

01:37a little chat with them and then they go away lifted.

01:40Fabulous. I bet that feels really rewarding to kind of be there for somebody that is really

01:45struggling.

01:46Absolutely. It wasn't the aim of the game when we first started, but it's certainly part of

01:51what we do now and it's great to do that.