
Coffee and Legos at New Cafe
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Newport on the Levee has a new cafe that just opened, but food and drinks aren't the ...
Newport on the Levee has a new cafe that just opened, but food and drinks aren't the only things on the menu.
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Coffee and Legos at New Cafe
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Newport on the Levee has a new cafe that just opened, but food and drinks aren't the only things on the menu.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe'll take you now up to northern Kentucky.
Newport on the Levee has a new cafe that just opened.
But food and drinks aren't the only things on the menu.
The Brick array cafe and play offers a chance to build and play with Legos here and want to do that.
And the owner says it's only it is one of the only of its kind in the country.
See how this business is building up creativity.
In this week's Art and Culture, a segment we call Tapestry.
The typical user journey into the store is first.
What the heck is this place?
Then I give them the spiel and it goes from confusion to excitement about the concept.
And then we hear a lot of times, you know, like I haven't played with Legos since I was such and such age and.
And then they're like, you know, maybe I want to see if this is still for me.
And that's that was exactly the idea as well as to to provide a place where people have access and to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible as well.
It's not just for kids, it's for everyone.
We have people of all ages coming in the store.
Some people come with their families.
Maybe they're thinking their kids are going to build, but all of a sudden you see them start to pick up Lego bricks and start building as well, which is exactly what we wanted.
And then we also have couples coming here for date night.
We have older folks come in as well.
And it's it's for everyone.
It's for the young and the young at heart.
We have pre-determined sets that we have for renting, and we haven't broken out in the small, medium and large.
We also have broken out by estimated completion time.
So whatever time you think you might have, you're able to check and see, okay, we maybe we can do a medium build.
And then you would look at the media menu and we have over 20 sets available currently that you can rent from every single theme you can think of with with Lego, we then hand it over to you and you're not renting the time, you're just renting the set.
So as long as it takes you.
We'd love to have you hang out with you.
Hang out with us for as long as you like.
You would just hand it back to us when you're done building.
We would then take it apart and rent it out to the next person.
When the idea popped into my head, I started researching and I was kind of shocked that it didn't already exist.
And so that really spurred me on to pursue it, because it was the kind of thing I was like, I just can't believe it doesn't exist.
I think other people might feel the same way.
And so part of the process too, for us was thinking about here's this high quality product and this really high quality experience in the home.
And we were just thinking, how can we bring that again, that high quality experience out into a social setting?
We're looking to have positive impact on the community.
We love that.
We've seen so many families come in.
We've gotten such great feedback where people are saying, You know, we just sat for 2 hours and built with our kids and just talked to them, You know, instead of going to a movie and just sitting next to each other silently for a couple of hours, we just spent the whole time talking and doing something with our hands.
And it was amazing.
And so just just hearing about that experience that people are having.
We love that.
It's having a positive impact on the community.
You hear a lot of people that are fans of Lego that will tell you, you know, they even find it therapeutic where it's just this experience that it's really kind of unrivaled in today's society where, you know, you have something in your hands for a couple of hours that's not your cell phone and you're staring at something for a couple of hours.
That's not a screen.
And it's just this this amazing process where you always go from disorder to order.
You start with a pile of bricks, raining bricks, and then you end up with something that's really cool or really beautiful.
And it's just amazing because every time it's just the same bricks and the possibilities are endless.
So we just are really hoping that people find something that they enjoy and then maybe they find out that, yeah, I love Lego when I was a kid, but it turns out I still do.
Good for kids of all ages.
And that place was packed, Johnson says, with the abundant positive response to the store in Newport, he's thinking of expanding throughout the region.
Good for him.
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