The smell of brewing coffee will soon be in the air again at the Greater Moncton Romero Leblanc International Airport.
As a part of a pilot project, Aaron’s Coffee Shop will open this month.
Co-Owner Aaron Nielson says they’ll offer just a few items, “To get started, we are just going to have our drip coffee and some snack goods, and stuff that is easy to grab and go. We are going to start basically like that. Then as we get more familiar, we will start adding products.”
The original location for the coffee shop was in Salisbury. It opened in 2020, as a tribute to his autistic son.
It closed two weeks ago, in preparation for this new location. “We realised that 80 to 85 per cent of our customers were from outside of Salisbury and we had this new opportunity,” Aaron says.
Aaron’s wife and Coffee Shop Co-Owner Shaunta Nielson says, “There will be much more foot traffic at the airport. It is going to be a very different environment for us, a lot busier, but we are looking forward to the challenge.”
Aaron’s goal is to expand and eventually have a life skills centre, with the hope this new location and coffee shop will take them to that dream much faster.
The new shop, to start will just have two employees, Aaron and his wife Shaunta. The hope is to eventually hire two the three more people, once the coffee shop is established.
It will be located pre-security on the first floor of the airport.
Aaron doesn’t have a set date for the opening just yet, but the hope if by next week, they’ll be serving their java to travellers.
The Tim Horton’s that was located at the airport has never reopened after its closure due to the pandemic.
