“I walk in the front door, I look at the counter, and I’m not in the desert anymore.”
( CBS 5 )
A Bay Area man is working to make sure troops overseas get their caffeine fix. He has taken several risks to set up cafes in war zones.
A Saudi Arabian princess asked Jason Araghi set up the country’s first coffee shop, and that’s how Green Beans Coffee was born. Now he has 70 cafes in 9 countries including Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many of his cafes are serving troops on overseas military bases. Araghi came up with the idea of taking a shipping container and converting it into a café which is litarally dropped onto a base.
Wild Thing’s comment……..
He’ll be ridiculed and perhaps run out of town since he is based in San Francisco.
I am always glad for anything that makes our troops happy and a little bit of home is wonderful for all of them.
Coffee–the troops love coffee and cocoa and cookies! And they deserve every cup! God, let’s give them a break now and again. Geez, what they have to go through over there is truly demanding and excrutiatingly bad. They are in Hell and only want a cup of joe.
God bless Jason Araghi and the Saudi Princess for bringing a bit of home to the troops.
Capitalism and innovation working in the desert. I am glad that these coffee shops and other treats are available to our troops.
Lynn, yes it is so wonderful. I love how he fixes the inside of the place too so it is more like back home for them. He thought of everything.
Tom me too, it really makes me happy to see this.