When Lindsay Wrege and Michael Evans met as undergraduate students at NC State in 2017, neither of them had a background in coffee. They didn’t even drink coffee. Determined to start a business focused on employing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, 321 Coffee was born, where they banded together with six volunteers and poured Starbucks coffee into cups ordered from Amazon. Five years later, 321 has 55 employees and is opening its first standalone storefront on Hillsborough Street in the Bloc[83] courtyard. Michael has become 321’s coffee connoisseur. And Lindsay still doesn’t drink coffee.
