Day: May 2, 2016

Co-founders of Equator Coffees & Teas Helen Russell, right, and Brooke McDonnell, left, at the Proof Lab Surf Shop location in Mill Valley, California. (Photo: Equator Coffees & Teas / Alex Salkever)

Love & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House

Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was enjoying her mocha with the whip cream piled high, suddenly had an idea: let’s open coffee shops in San Francisco.

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